January 9, 2007

Lists, 1/9.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs J Robert Parks revisits "ten older films I especially enjoyed last year."

Ronald Bergan, blogging at the Guardian site: "I look in vain among the official favourites for the big awards for some of the titles which I consider among the best films of last year: Bruno Dumont's Flanders, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century, Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth, György Pálfi's Taxidermia, Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine's Avida and Boris Khlebnikov's Free Floating. None of them are even likely to receive a release in this country."

Reverse Shot writes up a ten best and updates its "11 Offenses of 2006" list.

Monkey Peaches looks ahead to some of the more noteworthy Asian releases slated for 2007; scroll down a tad.



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Posted by dwhudson at January 9, 2007 3:51 PM

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ReverseShot has some fun taking pot shots at targets that are alternatively surprising or easy, but it seems further evidence that, just as it's easier to make a "bad" film than it is to make a "good" one, it's easier to write something negative than it is to write something positive. But it's the last line I was curious about - re: "the 'bad' ones have gotten much worse" - seems a little odd. Have bad films really gotten worse? Suffer through any from the 50s, 60s or 70s, or 80s... etc... but maybe the point is these new bad films have loftier ambitions, and may even win some awards? If so, I sort of see the point.

Anyway, is it just me, or are there more and more critics spending time ripping other critics for liking or disliking [insert film/director/genre here] than in thoughtful criticism? I don't mean to pick on Reverse Shot because I greatly enjoyed many parts of that piece, despite myself. I'm just wondering aloud here...

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Posted by: Craig P at January 9, 2007 4:19 PM

The article "11 Offenses of 2006" is truly a gem.

Posted by: jon pais at January 9, 2007 7:53 PM