Awards Watch Archive for January, 2015
Gurus o’ Gold: Back From The Holidays, Polls Close Thursday
The Gurus are back from the holidays and just after PGA nominations, another look at the Best Picture race as the Oscar nominations speed towards a close on Thursday. Eleven different films got Top 10 votes from more than half the Gurus, keeping things interesting.
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This morning’s PGA vote is as unsurprising as unsurprising can be. To begin with, there is nothing included that is out of the box that has been defined for months. American Sniper has built a lot of heat over the holidays. Nightcrawler has been gaining heat for a while already. And Foxcatcher has been expected by most prognosticators since Cannes, pushed into “unexpected” status only in the last few weeks.
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Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Michael Tully
1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 2. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) 3. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) 4. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) 5. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) 6. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez) 7. Citizenfour (Laura Poitras) 8. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 9. The Immigrant (James Gray) 10. Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini)…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Shade Rupe
1. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) 2. The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (Bruno Forzani, Hélène Cattet) 3. John Wick (Chad Stahelski) 4. Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) 5. The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) 6. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) 7. Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu) 8. Queen & Country (John Boorman) Via Fandor.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Michael Pattison
1. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) 2. Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) 3. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 4. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) 5. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) 6. Starred Up (David Mackenzie) 7. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (Declan Lowney) 8. Story of My Death (Albert Serra) 9. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) 10. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg) Via Fandor.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Kevin B. Lee
1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 2. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) 3. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto) 4. The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh) 5. Citizenfour (Laura Poitras) 6. Dear White People (Justin Simien) 7. Policeman (Nadav Lapid) 8. The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) 9. Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jay Kuehner
1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 2. A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Russell and Ben Rivers) 3. Jealousy (Philippe Garrel) 4. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) 5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 6. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) 7. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne) 8. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 9….
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jonathan Kiefer
[in alphabetical order] 1. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) 2. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 3. Calvary (John Michael McDonagh) 4. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) 5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 6. Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg) 7. Land Ho! (Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens) 8. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) 9. Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) 10….
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Tarah Judah
1. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour) 2. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 3. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) 4. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) 5. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 6. The Babadook (Jennifer Kent) 7. Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) 8. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) 9. John Wick (Chad…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Eugene Hernandez
1. Citizenfour (Laura Poitras) 2. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) 3. Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) 4. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) 5. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 6. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 7. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon Ho) 8. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour) 9. Manakamana…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Dennis Harvey
[in no order of preference] Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Boyhood (Richard Linklater) The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda) Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho) Via Fandor.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Brandon Harris
[in no order of preference other than top film] Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) Heli (Amat Escalante) The Immigrant (James Gray) Birdman (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) Land Ho! (Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz) Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) Enemy (Denis Villeneuve) Goodbye to All That (Angus…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Tomas Hachard
1. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 2. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) 3. Two Days, One Night (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne) 4. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 5. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) 6. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) 7. Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) 8. We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson) 9. Ida…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Pam Grady
1. Locke (Steven Knight) 2. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson) 3. Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 4. Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) 5. Frank (Lenny Abrahamson) 6. The Way He Looks (Daniel Ribeiro) 7. Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) 8. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) 9. Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) 10. Cold in July (Jim Mickle) Via Fandor.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jaime Grijalba
1. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho) 2. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan) 3. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 4. Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Sion Sono) 5. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 6. Guilty of Romance (Sion Sono) 7. The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) 8. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 9. Gone Girl (David Fincher) 10. The Grand…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: David Ehrenstein
1. Love Is Strange (Ira Sachs) 2. The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) 3. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 4. Finding Vivian Maier (Charles Siskel, John Maloof) 5. Dear White People (Justin Simien) 6. Still Alice (Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer) 7. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 8. The David Whiting Story or The Cesar Romero…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Brian Darr
1. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 2. Citizenfour (Laura Poitras) 3. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan) 4. Vic + Flo Saw A Bear (Denis Côté) 5. The Immigrant (James Gray) 6. Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) 7. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 8. The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) 9. Manakamana (Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez)…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Jordan Cronk
1. Story of My Death (Albert Serra) 2. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 3. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) 4. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) 5. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) 6. Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi) 7. What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto) 8. Life of Riley (Alain Resnais) 9. The Last of…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Adam Cook
1. Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) 2. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) 3. Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) 4. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 5. Jealousy (Philippe Garrel) 6. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 7. Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson) 8. Don t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) 9. Jersey Boys (Clint…
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