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Top 100 Films of the Decade (2000-2009)
This list represents the culmination of a decade’s worth of avid movie watching – and at least a full year of watching and re-watching hundreds of movies specifically for the purpose of making this...
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CIFF 2011 – Twenty Two Most Wanted!
With the start of the Chicago International Film Festival only six weeks away, it’s time for my annual wish list of films I’d most like to see turn up there. This is a combination of movies that have...
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Top Ten Films of 2011
Today’s post might be subtitled “The Old Guys Still Have It Edition.” While looking over the list of my favorite films of the year, it is striking to see not only how many titles were made by...
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Spank You Very Much, Film Comment
The results of Film Comment‘s Readers’ Poll of the best films of 2011 are in and, predictably, The Tree of Life has come out on top (just like it did in their Critics’ Poll). I’m grateful to the...
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Now Playing: Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis dir. David Cronenberg, 2012, Canada/France Rating: 9.1 The bottom line: long live the new New Flesh! Now playing at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema is Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg’s film...
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Top 10 Films of 2012
In 2012 I made a concerted effort to watch more movies in the theater than I have in the recent past, ramping up my total number of trips to 63 for the calendar year, or a little more than one...
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Odds and Ends: Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity/”Spotlight on Horror” in Wilmette
Gravity (Alfonso Cuaron, USA, 2013) – Theatrical Viewing / Rating: 7.4 Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity, a space opera starring America’s sweethearts Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, is a pretty good movie...
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CIFF 2014: 12 Most Wanted
Here are a dozen of the titles I’d most like to see turn up at the 50th(!) Chicago International Film Festival in October. Even if you don’t know or care anything about the Chicago International Film...
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