To hear the digital-age aesthetes tell it, you’d think the ugly “look” of Public Enemies, Michael Mann’s latest, was a flat-out accident. They imagine Mann and Dante Spinotti (his cinematographer for decades) slumping down in their chairs at a screening in Los Angeles, covering their faces with their coats, exchanging panicky whispers: “Why is [...]
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Christianne Hedtke / Top Ten Lists
Tags: Charlie Kaufman, drama, feminism, horror, Inglourious Basterds, John Hillcoat, Peter Jackson, Public Enemies, Quentin Tarantino, Spike Jonze, Sugar, Sundance 2008, Terrence Malick, The Road, Tree of Life, Where the Wild Things Are
March 14, 2009
Now that the nation is steeped in the post-Oscar, pre-Fourth of July movie-release lull, it’s the perfect time to look to the future and prepare ourselves for another year of excellent movies. In no particular order, here is a selection of films that are likely to amaze in 2009:
Tree of Life:
Tree of [...]
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