January 8, 2008

Lists, 1/8.

The Wayward Cloud Tsai Ming-liang's "2005 film The Wayward Cloud, an unquestionable masterpiece, and his generally excellent 2006 offering I Don't Want to Sleep Alone both debuted in New York theaters this year, and no other filmmaker has made a comparable offering in the same time frame," argues Andrew Schenker at the House Next Door.

Movies, sure, but also press conferences, Paris and rumbles throughout cinephilia make showings on Tom Hall's "Top 10 Cinematic Moments of 2007."

"[M]ovies like 3:10 to Yuma, Sweeney Todd and The Mist are a big part of why I started loving movies in the first place," writes Dennis Cozzalio. And that's just his second tier. "So, to make room for 'em all, the equation is a simple 11 + 10. In any casino in the world, that's blackjack, my friend - 21."

"Joel and Ethan Coen's western noir No Country for Old Men was the big winner Monday at the 13th annual Critics' Choice Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium," reports Susan King in the Los Angeles Times. The New York Post's Lou Lumenick "liveblogged" the evening.

"Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and No Country for Old Men), Robert Elswit, ASC (There Will Be Blood), Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and The Butterfly) and Seamus McGarvey, BSC (Atonement) are the nominees for top honors in the feature film category in the 22nd Annual Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards competition. The winner will be announced here during the awards celebration on January 26... Deakins is the first cinematographer to claim two ASC nominations in one year in this category."

The Darjeeling Limited The Tisch Film Review votes up its first top ten. #1: The Darjeeling Limited.

At the main site, Dylan de Thomas breaks his list into four categories: the "Ones Everyone Saw," the "Ones Some People Saw," the "Underseen Sleepers" and the "Wicked Old Ones."

"With big name directors like Ang Lee, Sidney Lumet and Francis Ford Coppola clogging up art house screens there was less and less room this year for new names and faces. In fact three movies (Reprise, Lost in Beijing and Never Forever) which played at various festivals throughout the year would have certainly made this list but were excluded only because they never got US distribution." Bryan Whitefield introduces his list at the ScreenGrab.

Paste picks 50 best films of 07.

Erik Childress's list of "2007's Whores of the Year" at Hollywood Bitchslap is downright epic in scale.

From There Will Be Blood through to The Bourne Ultimatum: Brandon Fibbs's top ten at cinemaattraction.

Rob Humanick: "The Year in Posters."

The cinetrix looks back on a list that comprises "a sort of cinematic autobiography of my 90s."

"As we launch into a new year with anticipation of upcoming films, let's pause to consider films that seem to have vanished, either by neglect or willful destruction." Phil Hall presents the fifth installment of Film Threat's "list of the most intriguing lost movies of all time."

At Movie City News, Noah Forrest looks ahead to "12 Spring Movies to Watch."

At IFC News, Stephen Saito lists "15 Big Screen Characters Who Didn't Make Final Cut."



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Posted by dwhudson at January 8, 2008 2:57 PM

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See this posting seems like a prime case of link overkill. Just to test, I went to all of the sites linked to in this post. Maybe three or four of these pieces were worth linking to (House Next Door, ScreenGrab, and Tom Hall, say, if we're being very generous). But the rest of the writing highlighted here really has very little critical and intellectual value or reputation and authority to go on -- and this extends from print to online-only content: Lou Lumenick for christ sake? Brandon Fibbs just seems inept. Film Threat? So many personal blogs? Come on. Maybe if there was more of an intellectual case made for linking to some of these things, it would cut down on the link-bloat...

Posted by: A concerned and very devoted GreenCine reader at January 10, 2008 8:06 AM

You're speaking directly to the debate I'm having with myself right now and I'd love to hear other readers chime in on this.

What I'd actually love to be able to do is work with a different publishing format. I do hope someone out there is working on a system that would allow bloggers to present a fluid front page, not unlike a newspaper's (whether online or print; it's interesting to see how, over over the years, designs of newspaper sites have evolved toward taking on the lessons of a century-plus of publishing newspapers in print).

This way, a blogger would be able to free him/herself from the limitations of a purely chronologically determined system and to advise readers of the relative importance of stories, links and such by design.

Until that happy day, though, thanks for your comments - and again, I hope others will say a word or two on this as well.

Posted by: David Hudson at January 10, 2008 10:58 AM

Inept? Ouch. Sorry "concerned and very devoted GreenCine reader," I'll let my newspaper and magazine editors know. I expect to be fired within the week.

BF

Posted by: Brandon Fibbs at February 4, 2008 8:34 AM
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