By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com

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Adam Kempenaar
Filmspotting

1 Man on Wire
2 Milk
3 Hunger
4 Paranoid Park
5 The Wrestler
6 Happy Go Lucky
7 Rachel Getting Married
8 My Winnipeg
9 Synecdoche, NY
10 The Dark Knight
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Matty Robinson
Filmspotting

1 Wall-E
2 Trouble the Water
3 Chop Shop
4 Hunger
5 In Bruges
6 A Christmas Tale
7 Paranoid Park
8 The Wrestler
8 Man on Wire
10 Zack & Miri Make a Porno
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Sandhu/Robey
The Telegraph

1 Kung Fu Panda
2 There Will Be Blood
3 Hunger
4 Man on Wire
5 Lust, Caution
6 In Bruges
7 King of Kong
8 Speed Racer
9 Import/Export
10 Summer Hours
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Film Comment
Contributors

1 Wendy & Lucy
2 Flight of the Red Balloon
3 A Christmas Tale
4 Happy Go Lucky
5 Wall-E
6 Still Life
7 Paranoid park
8 Waltz with Bashir
8 My Winnipeg
10 Milk
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Keith Cohen
Sun Publications

1 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2 Slumdog Millionaire
3 Frost/Nixon
4 The Dark Knight
5 Boy in the Striped Pajamas
6 The Bucket List
7 A Friend Indeed
8 Young @ Heart
9 The Express
10 The Edge of Heaven
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Emanuel Levy
EmanualLevy.com

1 Hunger
2 The Dark Knight
3 Slumdog Millionaire
4 Encounters at End of the World
5 Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6 Rachel Getting Married
7 Wall-E
8 Gomorrah
8 Let the Right One In
10 Man On Wire/Waltz with Bashir
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Andrew O’Hehir
Salon

1 A Christmas Tale
2 Waltz with Bashir
3 Chop Shop
4 Encounters at End of the World
5 Flight of the Red Balloon
6 Momma’s Man
7 Man on Wire
8 The Order of Myths
9 Heartbeat Detector
10 Romance of Astrea & Celadon
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Adam Nayman
Eye Weekly

1 In the City of Sylvia
2 Still Life
3 Ballast
4 La France
5 Duchess of Langeais
6 Wendy & Lucy
7 The Unforseen
8 Rachel Getting Married
9 Let the Right One In
10 Profit Motive & Whispering Wind
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Erik Kohn
New York Press

1 Happy Go Lucky
2 Mister Lonely
3 Frownland
4 Eden
5 The Class
6 Tropic Thunder
7 My Father My Lord
8 Man on Wire
9 Chop Shop
10 Wanted & Desired
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Robert Koehler
Variety Cinema Scope

1 In the City of Sylvia
2 Gomorrah
3 La France
4 Ballast
5 Silence Before Bach
6 Fengming: A Chinese Memoir
7 My Winnipeg
8 Paranoid Park
9 Man on Wire
10 Still Life

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

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~ David Simon