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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Christianne Hedtke / Top Ten Lists
Tags: Arthur Russell, comedy, David Gordon Greene, documentary, Evan Goldberg, Filth and Wisdom, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Good Dick, Hamlet 2, horror, In Bruges, independent film, James Franco, Jason Segel, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jonah Hill, Judd Apatow, Let the Right One In, Madonna, Matt Wolf, Medicine for Melancholy, Mila Kunis, Mitchell Lichtenstein, movie, music, Nicholas Stoller, Phillip Glass, Pineapple Express, Revolutionary Road, Seth Rogen, Son of Rambow, Sundance, Sundance 2007, Sundance 2008, Sundance Film Festival, Tell No One, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Wrestler, Tomas Alfredson, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival 2008, Trouble the Water, W., Wild Combination
February 10, 2009
Why stop at 10 when there are so many excellent movies out there and the internet has infinite space? To settle any arguments that may spring up, some of these movies were released as early as 2007 and exhibited in theaters as late as 2009, but they are all uniquely connected with 2008 either [...]
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Good Dick is a surprisingly hilarious look at an extremely dark topic, and despite the myriad emotional complexities the film explores, it is only 80 minutes long! Though it is short, it is a complete movie, leading us by way of comedy to the dark core of the film, and back out [...]
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