Bravo for including Turin Horse and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, but then are you seriously saying Master and Moonrise Kingdom are better films????
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Back in 2008, reviewing McConaughey's "performance" in the limp adventure comedy Fool's Gold, I wrote that "there's something depressing about watching a fortysomething refugee from a Jimmy Buffett concert spend two hours of screen time trying to get rich quick." This year, though, the actor was nothing short of exhilarating each and every time he appeared on-screen, and there is more to come in 2013, with the promise of a juicy supporting role in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street and the lead in a longtime pet project, The Dallas Buyers Club, about a homophobic Texas electrician diagnosed with AIDS. This alone feels like a reason to believe in the future of movies.
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DUPLICATES IN BEST FILM LIST [ I only checked thru 8 votes]: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 151v 23 AND 23v 3 ;The Cabin in the Woods 22v 3 AND 11v 3; Goodbye First Love 22v 4 AND 9v 1; Two Years at Sea 8v 2 AND 7v 2. OTHERWISE A TERRIFIC LIST
Can we see the full list?? You used to list the results of over 150 films along with individual ballots. Point the way. Please.
Funny, I hated "The Master" (what the hell did I justwatch?!).....but until I see Django, it really was the film of the year.By far. What other movie have I been so stoked for and yet so confusedbut ambivilent about afterwards in recent memory? None. That's moviemaking.Plus Jaoquin Phoenix was insanely brilliant.
@TimGrierson Just imagine if The Master had a narrative, arcs, scenes that weren't interchangeable & a last hour that didn't fall flat!
you just don't get it.
And that's the whole point of an Anderson film - to feel superior to people by saying "you just don't get it" even though there's really no "it" to get.
@Raphanimal I'm not sure all that's true, but what other people consider flaws in that movie I think add to its mysterious richness.
@TimGrierson Saw it opening weekend, packed house, Century City. Leaving theater the sense of bewilderment and dissatisfaction was palpable.
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