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The most influential scripts ever put on film in my humble opinion. These are films where everything worked out perfectly in the right place with great acting, directing, editing and everything else. Yet all of these films have some of the most influential dialogue and narrative structures ever put on celluloid. It was hard to narrow down the best scripts […]
“When we watched his movies … we didn’t just laugh until it hurt. We questioned authority. We identified with the outsider. We rooted for the underdog. And through it all, […]
This is encapsulates my personal favorite movie endings, they are ranked by the ending not by the film. Each of these endings are ones that left a huge impact on me and my impression of the film. 10. Unforgiven Probably the best ending in any western and that is saying a lot considering High Noon and Shane. For almost two hours we hear […]
300… was more disappointing than finding out you have 300 days to live http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/images_3/300MoviePoster3.jpg Many people consider their greatest motion picture disappointment of their lives to be Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. I however reserve my greatest theater going movie disappointment to be for a film that I foolishly hyped up for myself, not one that the media […]
Defending A View to a Kill One of the James Bond films that has a particularly toxic reputation is 1985’s A View to a Kill. In this ongoing series of “Pan and Slam Essentials” I will be highlighting films that I love which I either find very underrated or for whatever reason I absolutely love yet the rest of the world […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman… a loss cinema will feel for years to come The world lost a great actor yesterday. An Actor in the truest sense of the word, a character […]
One of my good friends lives in San Francisco and we disagreed slightly over Woody Allen’s new picture “Blue Jasmine”, which takes place in San Francisco. He felt that the Woodman went out of his way to make San Francisco look bad and did not photograph it in the usual glamorous light that he illustrates The Big Apple. I disagreed […]
Best Picture: Before Midnight Her Inside Llewyn Davis Pacific Rim 12 Years a Slave* Best Director: Woody Allen-Blue Jasmine Guillermo Del Toro-Pacific Rim Spike Jonze-Her Richard Linklater-Before Midnight* Alexander Payne-Nebraska Best Actor: Chiwetel Ejiofor-12 Years a Slave […]
Best Picture: Argo The Dark Knight Rises Django Unchained* Jiro Dreams of Sushi Lincoln Moonrise Kingdom Prometheus Skyfall Ted Zero Dark Thirty Best Director: Wes Anderson-Moonrise Kingdom Kathryn Bigelow-Zero Dark Thirty Ridley Scott-Prometheus Steven Spielberg-Lincoln Quentin Tarantino-Django Unchained* Best Actor: Jack Black-Bernie Daniel Craig-Skyfall Daniel […]
Best Picture: The Artist The Descendants Drive The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Hugo* Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol Moneyball Source Code Tree of Life Warrior Best Director: Michael Hazanvicius-The Artist Terrence Malick-Tree of Life Alexander Payne-The Descendants […]
Best Picture: Black Swan Blue Valentine Enter the Void The Ghost Writer Inception* The Kids are Alright The King’s Speech 127 Hours The Social Network True Grit Best Director: Danny Boyle-127 Hours Lisa Cholodenko-The Kids are Alright Joel and Ethan Coen-True Grit David Fincher-The […]
Best Picture: District 9 Drag Me To Hell The Hurt Locker* Up Up in the Air Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow-The Hurt Locker* Neill Blomkamp-District 9 Sam Raimi-Drag Me To Hell Jason Reitman-Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino-Inglorious Basterds Best Actor: George Clooney-Up in the Air* Matt […]
Best Picture: The Dark Knight* Gran Torino Milk Redbelt The Wrestler Best Director: Tomas Alfredson-Let The Right One In Darren Aronofsky-The Wrestler David Mamet-Redbelt Christopher Nolan-The Dark Knight* Gus Van Sant-Milk Best Actor: Clint Eastwood-Gran Torino Chiwetel Ejiofor-Redbelt Colin Farrell-In Bruges Sean Penn-Milk […]
Best Picture: Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Juno Michael Clayton There Will Be Blood* Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson-There Will Be Blood* David Cronenberg-Eastern Promises Tony Gilroy-Michael Clayton Julian Schnabel-The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Paul Verhoeven-Black Book Best Actor: […]
Best Picture: Children of Men The Departed* The Descent The Fountain Pan’s Labyrinth Best Director: Darren Aronofsky-The Fountain Alfonso Cuaron-Children of Men Guillermo Del Toro- Pan’s Labyrinth* Clint Eastwood-Letters from Iwo Jima Martin Scorsese-The Departed Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio-The Departed Vin Diesel-Find Me Guilty Hugh […]
Best Picture: Batman Begins Crash Good Night and Good Luck A History of Violence Munich* Best Director: George Clooney-Good Night and Good Luck David Cronenberg-A History of Violence Christopher Nolan-Batman Begins Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller-Sin City Steven Spielberg-Munich* Best Actor: Christian Bale-Batman Begins Eric […]
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