tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post9108352778846345073..comments2024-03-24T13:26:57.317-07:00Comments on Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule: 2010's TOP HATS: WAVING GOODBYE TO THE VERY BEST OF A VERY GOOD MOVIE YEARDennis Cozzaliohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-44635592768691975092011-03-06T10:07:26.108-08:002011-03-06T10:07:26.108-08:00Damn, and I thought my year end post was long. I t...Damn, and I thought my year end post was long. I thought the thing would never end - and I don't mean that in a bad way. Nice job. Good to see Let Me In getting some deserved notice - simply one of the best remakes I've ever seen.<br /><br />Mat<br /><br />p.s. - love the name of your blogMat Violahttp://notesofafilmfanatic.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-29345030447232395732011-03-05T19:02:16.883-08:002011-03-05T19:02:16.883-08:00At some point last year, I posted at Facebook abou...At some point last year, I posted at Facebook about how surprised I was at my intensely positive reaction to "Friends With Money," the first Holofcener movie I'd seen. You commented, saying you were hoping to catch something by her soon. Guess that turned out well! "Please Give" was one of very few highlights from the first half of 2010. It ended up just missing my Top 10 for the year, but I bet I regret that when I watch it a second time.Christiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-40101575186262610262011-03-04T14:44:31.282-08:002011-03-04T14:44:31.282-08:00Sadly, Nick Cage and I have amicably 'broken u...Sadly, Nick Cage and I have amicably 'broken up,' so I will not see his latest opus. :-) I haven't seen a movie in a theater since New Year's weekend, partly due to my ongoing cold and partly due to lack of interest. I did, however, 'see' <i>Exit Through the Gift Shop</i> thanks to the nice folks at Netflix streaming. I fell asleep... twice.<br /><br />Last night when I got home from work, BBC America was showing <i>Hunt for Red October</i>. I watched it to the end, despite the bad edits because it was the best movie I've seen in long time! Sadly, there are only a couple of movies that I saw this year that I can imagine would have me stop down and watch them in 20 years.Sharonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-804653838684395942011-03-04T14:05:49.454-08:002011-03-04T14:05:49.454-08:00Sharon: Re 2011, well, Rango is getting good notic...Sharon: Re 2011, well, <i>Rango</i> is getting good notices; the Sundance sensation <i>Happythankyoumoreplease</i> (edited by <i>SLIFR</i>'s favorite film editor Michael R. Miller) opens today; and the movie that got great reviews at Cannes, <i>Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives</i> is opening at the Royal in West L.A. today as well. And then there's <i>Drive Crazy (in 3D!)</i> which, if we're lucky, will be this year's <i>Piranha 3D</i>! In other words, enough movies to make me fear missing them all for lack of time and money. So maybe, despite <i>Sanctum, No Strings Attached</i> and <i>Gnomeo and Juliet</i> and scores of other duds, maybe 2011 will shape up here real soon. <br /><br />I <i>know</i> you've seen the Nicolas Cage movie. Admit it! What did you think?!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-25902203998234255532011-03-04T13:09:42.233-08:002011-03-04T13:09:42.233-08:00I don't know how you have time for it all! Yo...I don't know how you have time for it all! You have a lovely wife, two gorgeous daughters, a full-time job, a fantastic blog and yet you still can find the time to see WAY more movies than me, a single person without kids or significant other. And you read books too! I'm in awe! <br /><br />Just a few thoughts re your post. My friend Carol was heartened to learn you had selected <i>Please Give</i> as best movie on your list. It's hers too.<br /><br />I am in total agreement with you re <i>Black Swan</i>. The main problem (but certainly not the only one!) for me was Natalie Portman, her acting and her dancing. I didn't buy her as a prima ballerina for a SECOND, yet that is what won awards for her, IMO. That and the months/years she spent training. Her dancing was passible only, and yet I was to believe she was so, so good.<br /><br />And the performance. Oye! This may be the first time that someone won by looking worried for two hours! Hey, I can do that! She didn't make me feel ANYTHING for this character. I know the script didn't help, but she brought nothing to the role in her performance. I would really like to talk to someone who did like the movie and the performance that could possibly explain to me what I'm missing.<br /><br />For me the best movie of the year was <i>Toy Story 3</i>. Nothing else came close.<br /><br />2011 has gotten off to a slow start, moviewise, but here's hoping things will start looking up soon.Sharonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-31214043163101528342011-03-01T02:48:01.274-08:002011-03-01T02:48:01.274-08:00What an amazing post! I, too, have massive love fo...What an amazing post! I, too, have massive love for Harry Brown and Splice and wish that other folks had recognized those films for the brilliance that they possessed! And thank you ever so much for the kind words- they mean the universe!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-91989358114351944822011-02-28T01:17:31.339-08:002011-02-28T01:17:31.339-08:00Congratulations on your new novel. Is it available...Congratulations on your new novel. Is it available in hardback for $19.95?<br /><br />Joke attempt #2:<br />When your 10 best list started out with <i>Unstoppable</i> at #10, it instantly became <i>unreadable.</i><br /><br />Later I recovered from that baffling inclusion and have been flipping through these long pages!<br /><br />But seriously, great work, man, this is very exhaustive. Clearly a man who is resisting the Twitterization of the World!The Mysterious Ad[ri.an B)e;ta]m.a.x.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14584835204677201232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-36029491965392945692011-02-27T10:09:59.126-08:002011-02-27T10:09:59.126-08:00Larry, that's the Matt Reeves interview locate...Larry, that's the Matt Reeves interview located at my review of the number two movie on my list, <i>Let Me In</i>. I don't know why it does that, but all you have to do to disable it is put your cursor on the video player and hit "pause." It's the first time I've ever seen one of these embeds do that, and I'll be damned if I'm techie enough to figure out how to stop the madness.Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-76037989119083167712011-02-27T08:14:20.057-08:002011-02-27T08:14:20.057-08:00D, every time I call up your site, some audio DVD ...D, every time I call up your site, some audio DVD commentary starts playing...larry aydlettenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-47767219496317827692011-02-26T17:39:38.230-08:002011-02-26T17:39:38.230-08:00Robert: I was trying my darnedest to get to Cabin ...Robert: I was trying my darnedest to get to <i>Cabin in the Sky/Hallelujah</i>, but the workaday world (and my deadlines for the Film Noir blogathon) did not cooperate. I can imagine it was glorious. And I think you're right about the way we judged the history of movies. I'll never forget looking at a bunch of old calendars for my hometown theater circa 1950 or so, and my friend and I noted all these generic B-movies that we'd never heard of that were littering the schedules. He said to me, "Yeah, these are like the 1950 equivalent of stuff like <i>Foul Play</i> or <i>Almost Summer</i> or <i>Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects</i>-- nobody's gonna remember those movies either!"<br /><br />Mike: Part of the reason I post those movies for which I have little or no remaining interest is the hope that someone will come out and say, "No, you gotta see that!" I've already been talked into giving <i>Megamind</i> a chance (for the sake of the children, as Haven Hamilton would have it). So if the man who introduced me to the pleasures of Fred MacMurray and Marjorie Main <i>Murder He Says</i> maintains that <i>Micmacs</i> is worth a look-- nay, the best movie of the year!-- then I will be on my way to a look real quick-like!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-24456449845459655052011-02-26T16:31:17.755-08:002011-02-26T16:31:17.755-08:00Dennis, I need to talk you INTO seeing MICMACS. Po...Dennis, I need to talk you INTO seeing MICMACS. Possibly the best movie of the year, certainly the most original.Mike Schlesingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-61097928881732278472011-02-26T15:46:51.779-08:002011-02-26T15:46:51.779-08:00Here's the thing about the way movies are view...Here's the thing about the way movies are viewed: Contemporary cinema is judged by all the lousy movies that come out. Historical cinema is always judged by the best movies that came out. This is for one simple reason: Over time, people stop watching the lousy ones. Any accurate view of the movies coming out now will depend on looking solely at the good ones.<br /><br />I enjoyed watching Michael Caine in Harry Brown so much that I stayed through Get Carter, which I hadn't planned on doing. (Not because I don't like Get Carter, but because generally I don't have double feature stamina these days. The tissues are tender back there.) This was at the New Beverly, of course. I did summon up double feature stamina for the one they just had of Cabin in the Sky and Hallelujah, which was something else. Did you make it to that one?Robert Fiorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06357467040644448167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-31619210084843958572011-02-26T14:02:35.065-08:002011-02-26T14:02:35.065-08:00My sincere thanks, Vince. It means a lot to hear t...My sincere thanks, Vince. It means a lot to hear that people like you enjoy something like this as much as I do putting it together-- even if it takes close to forever to do! <a href="blog.vincekeenan.com/" rel="nofollow">Great blog</a> on your end too!Dennis Cozzaliohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954848938471883431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8795280.post-72082045088140721242011-02-26T12:19:54.660-08:002011-02-26T12:19:54.660-08:00Bravo. An exhaustive, exhilarating post with a dan...Bravo. An exhaustive, exhilarating post with a dandy 10-best list.Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473441336451528462noreply@blogger.com