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1000 Greatest Films?

20 December 2008 7:45 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

The movie lists that get the most attention these days are sadly fan-pandering lists from major movie publications (EW, Empire, etcetera) that cater to the last 25 years or are overly worried about mainstream relevance and DVD sales (AFI)... forgetting that the most noble purpose of 'all time lists' is not to pat people on the back for what they love but to inspire them to dig deeper. "Great" lists should be filling up our rental queues. Best book lists are not best seller charts after all but encouragements to read. Best music lists are often about new discoveries, too. What haven't you heard? So I'm totally excited to study They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? reworked "Top 1000 Films of All Time" list.

I am powerless against a good list. Here's two samples from their top 1000. First, the top 20 and I've picked two that I really insist that you see right now »

- NATHANIEL R

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Nyfcc Gets Happy Drinking Milk

10 December 2008 10:02 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Here we go. The New York Film Critics Circle announcements are made.

Picture: Milk

Director: Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky

Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

NY & La combined is powerful leverage for Oscar nods. Maybe that Bfca snub won't hurt her at all since she was losing Best Actress buzz

Actor: Sean Penn, Milk

Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, Milk

Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married

Animated Film: Wall•E

Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania)

Best First Film: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River

Documentary: Man on Wire

Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire

The clear boosts here, Oscar-wise, are Gus Van Sant's sure to be nominated Milk biopic and Mike Leigh's less buzzy but winning Happy-Go-Lucky. Overall it's a nice continuation of Lafca's spreading of the wealth. Cruz is really gunning for that Oscar. If she pulls it off for Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen »

- NATHANIEL R

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First set report on Romero’s new zombie…Western?!

3 November 2008 9:45 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Deep in the darkest heart of rural Ancaster, just on the outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario, hordes of hungry cannibal corpses are bursting from the confines of a barnyard prison and shambling toward anything with a heartbeat. Around them, panic-stricken horses whinny and flee while Stetson-wearing cowboys and grizzled farmhands shoot Winchester rifles—aiming, of course, for the head. All the while, director George A. Romero stands by, grinning. See, this is the set of Romero’s latest—and, as of this writing, still officially untitled (though many sources currently list it as Island Of The Dead)—living-dead adventure, an action-oriented horror film that also functions as, believe it or not, a Western.

That’s right. A zombie Western.

Taking its cues from one of the director’s favorite vintage Hollywood oaters, William Wyler’s 1958 Gregory Peck/Charlton Heston vehicle The Big Country, Romero is fashioning a kind of mini-epic of modern-day zombie mayhem, »

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Wuthering Heights once more? Maybury to direct new big-screen adaptation

1 February 2008 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Years 2008 and 2009 are the slowly becoming the new 1939. Gulp! Diane English remade and will release George Cukor's 1939 film The Women and just announced today,  the filmmaker behind The Jacket and the just completed The Edge of Love (starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys) will take on Wuthering Heights (the more popular version was the 1939 William Wyler adaptation). Written by Olivia Hetreed (Girl With a Pearl Earring) the pick will be produced by Ecosse's Robert Bernstein and Douglas Rae and Screen Daily quotes John Maybury stating "a UK shoot is likely – "It's about landscape as much as about character". Maybury was attached to direct Come Like Shadows (an adaptation of Shakespeare's "Macbeth") no word on what the status is on that project. »

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