Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Marks & Shane, 2011)
Being Elmo is good.
Category: Top 10s and Other Lists
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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.
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2009 Favorite Discoveries
The average person, even if he or she is an avid cinephile, really sees a very small percentage of the films released every year.
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2009 Top 10
These films reflect my favorite experiences of the year in cinema. I also think they are very good.
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Trumbo (Askin, 2007)
One strength of the film is that it relies heavily on the words of a wordsmith.
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Forgiving Dr. Mengele (Hercules, 2006)
The act of reviewing carries with it a strain of judgment, and when reviewing a documentary it is hard not to feel as though one is judging the subject and not just the artists' presentation of him or her. Which of us would dare judge Eva Moses Kor?