It’s one thing to come up with a top 10 list of the best movies in any given year. The best movies of the decade is even harder. But the best movies of a century? Ok, when it comes to the new millennium, that’s just a decade and a half. Still, it’s no easy task to consider the highlights from 16 years of viewing — but that’s part of what makes it such a compelling challenge.
Recently, BBC polled a large group of critics, including IndieWire’s Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich, for their lists of the best achievements of the 21st century. (The full results will run in mid-to-late August.) The results of the poll have yet to run, but as countless participants have begun sharing their results, we felt compelled to weigh in. Of course, lists are highly subjective and almost always omit some major titles, so...
Recently, BBC polled a large group of critics, including IndieWire’s Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich, for their lists of the best achievements of the 21st century. (The full results will run in mid-to-late August.) The results of the poll have yet to run, but as countless participants have begun sharing their results, we felt compelled to weigh in. Of course, lists are highly subjective and almost always omit some major titles, so...
- 6/25/2016
- by Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
After revealing its centerpieces earlier this month, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the full slate for the 2015 New York Film Festival and the big news is Steven Spielberg is back. That's right, after debuting “Lincoln” at the fest just three years ago, America’s greatest living filmmaker returns with his latest thriller, “Bridge of Spies." “Spies” finds Tom Hanks portraying James B. Donovan, a lawyer who was recruited to negotiate the release of an U.S. pilot whose U2 spy plane was shot down in the Soviet Union in 1962. If there was any question previously, this certainly puts the Touchstone Pictures release in the awards season conversation. As for the rest of the slate there is only one new world premiere, “Don’t Blink: Robert Frank” (the entire festival only has four at the moment), and lots of movies that originally debuted at Cannes. In fact, 13 of...
- 8/13/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy has been scoping likely contenders for the Cannes 2015 lineup, and we take note of two reports on the status of two of them, Andrzej Żuławski’s Cosmos and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Love in Khon Kaen. Also in the works: Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes movie with Lily Collins, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen, Annette Bening, Dabney Coleman, Candice Bergen and Oliver Platt; Steve Martin is joining the cast of Ang Lee's Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Scott Rudin has acquired rights to Kazuo Ishiguro’s epic new novel The Buried Giant; Netflix has picked up a new series by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij; and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/7/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy has been scoping likely contenders for the Cannes 2015 lineup, and we take note of two reports on the status of two of them, Andrzej Żuławski’s Cosmos and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Love in Khon Kaen. Also in the works: Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes movie with Lily Collins, Matthew Broderick, Martin Sheen, Annette Bening, Dabney Coleman, Candice Bergen and Oliver Platt; Steve Martin is joining the cast of Ang Lee's Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk; Scott Rudin has acquired rights to Kazuo Ishiguro’s epic new novel The Buried Giant; Netflix has picked up a new series by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij; and more. » - David Hudson...
- 3/7/2015
- Keyframe
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