2012 NCFCA Awards
The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) will announce its awards for the best films and performances of 2012 next week.
Category: Top 10s and Other Lists
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2012 Top Ten
It was pretty apparent for me early on that 2012 was a banner year for documentaries.
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Argo (Affleck, 2012)
I approached Argo with a certain amount of trepidation since it depicted events very close to my own life.
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2011 Top 10
At various points in the year, I considered five different films for the top slot. Normally that might mean that there was no runaway film that I really fell in love with, but the opposite was true. The difficulty in picking just one was reflective of the different ways in which I adored each of these films.
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Marks & Shane, 2011)
Being Elmo is good.
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2010 Favorite Discoveries
So here it is--a list of my ten favorite "new to me" films. These are films that I first screened in 2010 even though they have been previously released.
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2010 Favorites — 1More Podcast Episode 8
Toy Story 3 versus Tangled. Human interaction versus spectacle. Who is tired of movies about misunderstood villains, and who is making a new year's resolution to watch less previews? The ladies speak up for Scott Pilgrim and The Social Network. Scott Pilgrim gets compared to True Grit, Winter's Bone gets compared to Made in Dagenham, and Inception gets compared to....Titanic?!?!?!
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2010 Top Ten
In podcasting about my personal favorites for 2010, I asked my friend Peter Waldron, "When did 'entertaining' become a backhanded compliment?" I did--and do--see a schism on my list between heavier, more prestigious films and lighter but still well executed fare.
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The King’s Speech (Hooper, 2010)
Fresh on the heels of winning the Cadillac People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, Tom Hooper's The King's Speech is set to be a gala presentation at AFI Fest. My write up of the film for AFI FEST NOW is now up at that site.
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1More Podcast — January 2010
Kenneth R. Morefield, Elizabeth Rambo, and Peter Waldron podcast about their favorite films of 2009.