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Re: Ferris' GooseEgg Marathon: 40 great films from this decade
« Reply #510 on: March 13, 2010, 03:46:44 PM »
The Squid and the Whale
(2006,  Noah Baumbach)

So I suppose at some point I should give it another try.  Anyone want to make a compelling argument?

I'm hoping to watch it tomorrow for my own Marathon.  Maybe I can give you that counterpoint.

That final shot is beautiful, enough in a second to make the film fantastic.
One good shot does not a film make.

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Re: Ferris' GooseEgg Marathon: 40 great films from this decade
« Reply #511 on: March 13, 2010, 03:55:16 PM »
The Squid and the Whale
(2006,  Noah Baumbach)

So I suppose at some point I should give it another try.  Anyone want to make a compelling argument?

I'm hoping to watch it tomorrow for my own Marathon.  Maybe I can give you that counterpoint.

That final shot is beautiful, enough in a second to make the film fantastic.
One good shot does not a film make.

You're right, an animated film from last year proved that well enough, but Eisenberg's fantastic performance and the compelling script are more than enough to push this one way over the top.

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Re: Ferris' GooseEgg Marathon: 40 great films from this decade
« Reply #512 on: March 13, 2010, 04:05:42 PM »
The Wind that Shakes the Barley: I'm kinda glad you didn't love this, because I just can't get excited to see it. :-\

The Squid and the Whale: Yeah, I agree completely. Mediocre, but feels like it thinks it's great, which just makes me disdain it.

Before Sunset: Nice review! Makes me want to watch it again, a lot of the things you mention are also the things I loved about it.

Encounters at the End of the World: I really should check this out. It sounds groovy.


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Re: Ferris' GooseEgg Marathon: 40 great films from this decade
« Reply #513 on: March 13, 2010, 07:51:26 PM »
I found Encounters to be quite boring strangely.

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GooseEgg Awards - 3rd and 4th Round
(To the extent it makes sense to do awards for a round of 20 films, when previously I'd done it for groups of 10?!- here you go...)

Just a reminder, here are the films from this round: (Before Sunrise was part of this, but I'm not including it in these awards)





Best Soundtrack
25th Hour
A Prairie Home Companion
Team America World Police
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Winner: Team America World Police

Best Score
Alexandre Desplat - Fantastic Mr Fox
George Fenton - The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Henry Kaiser, David Lindley - Encounters at the End of the World
Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream
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winner: Henry Kaiser, David Lindley - Encounters at the End of the World

Best Editing:
Joe Bini - Grizzly Man
Trey Parker - Team America Word Police
Jay Rabinowitz - Requiem for a Dream
Christopher Rouse - The Bourne Ultimatum
Andrew Weisblum - Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Winner - Andrew Weisblum - Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Screenplay
David Benioff - 25th Hour
Ki-duk Kim - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke - Before Sunset
Trey Parker, Matt Stone - Team America World Police
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Winner: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke - Before Sunset

Best Cinematography:
Russell Boyd - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Roger Deakins - The Man Who Wasn't There
Baek Dong-hyeon - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
Emmanuel Lubezki - Y Tu Mama Tambien
Oliver Wood - The Bourne Ultimatum
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Winner: Emmanuel Lubezki - Y Tu Mama Tambien

Best Supporting Actress
Scarlett Johansson - The Man Who Wasn't There
Anna Paquin - 25th Hour
Lily Tomlin - A Prairie Home Companion
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Winner: Lily Tomlin - A Prairie Home Companion

Best Actress:
Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream
Julie Delpy - Before Sunset
Maribel Verdú - Y Tu Mama Tambien
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Winner: Ellen Burstyn - Requiem for a Dream

Best Supporting Actor
Brian Geraghty - The Hurt Locker
Philip Seymour Hoffman - 25th Hour
John C. Reilly - A Prairie Home Companion
Jason Schwartzman - Fantastic Mr. Fox
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Winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman - 25th Hour

Best Actor:
Gael García Bernal - Y Tu Mama Tambien
Matt Damon - The Bourne Ultimatum
Ki-duk Kim - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring
Billy Bob Thorton - The Man Who Wasn't There
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Winner: Gael García Bernal - Y Tu Mama Tambien

Best Director:
Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Alfonso Cuarón - Y Tu Mama Tambien
Paul Greengrass - The Bourne Ultimatum
Werner Herzog - Encounters at the End of the World
Spike Lee - 25th Hour
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Winner: Alfonso Cuarón - Y Tu Mama Tambien

Best Scene
- The Penguin - Encounters at the End of the World
- Raised Paw - Fantastic Mr Fox
- Finding the Beach - Y Tu Mama Tambien
- "What if we keep driving?" - 25th Hour
- "I'm So Lonely" - Team America World Police
- A few hours at the Galapagos- Master and Commander: Far Side of the World
- Carving the Heart Sutra  - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
- The End - Before Sunset
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Winner: - Carving the Heart Sutra  - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring

Best Film:
25th Hour
Before Sunset
Encounters at the End of the World
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring
Grizzly Man
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Winner: Before Sunset
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Re: Ferris' GooseEgg Marathon: 40 great films from this decade
« Reply #515 on: March 13, 2010, 08:29:07 PM »
YAY for best film!

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Re: Ferris' GooseEgg Marathon: 40 great films from this decade
« Reply #516 on: March 13, 2010, 08:55:47 PM »
I found Encounters to be quite boring strangely.

You're not wrong, it's pretty bad. Herzog redeems himself with that Cage vehicle though.

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Any comment on the UFO subplot.  That's where the film really lost my attention, and there's a shot in the end dealing with it that I really didn't like.

I loved that deal at the end but was mildly disappointed that it turned out to be a dream sequence.  I loved that scene where the wife comes to Ed's door with that crazy story.  Just comical how no one even once considers the possibility of him being the murderer and blackmailer

I just watched this (The Man Who Wasn't There) mostly based on your review. I don't think, though, that it was a dream sequence. Is there anything that supports this being the case? It just seemed like some wild and crazy thing that happened to him. The way he handled it seemed perfectly in character, too, which was awesome, dream or no dream.
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Re: Ferris' GooseEgg Marathon: 40 great films from this decade
« Reply #518 on: March 13, 2010, 11:13:58 PM »
Well done good sir. There's a lot in there I need to see and I've enjoyed reading your thoughts on the films I have seen.

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Re: Ferris' GooseEgg Marathon: 40 great films from this decade
« Reply #519 on: March 14, 2010, 10:45:44 AM »
As many of you are aware, the point of this marathon was to see as many of the "great" films from the 00's that I could before building a best-of-the-decade list.  My current best-of-the-decade list is already pretty crowded, but I'm hoping to make room for a bunch from this marathon:

Here are the final standings.  The ones above the line are likely going to make my  best-of-the-decade list:

All Time Great
1-Spirited Away
2-The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3-Children of Men
4-Before Sunset
5-United 93
6-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7-The Science of Sleep
8-Grizzly Man

Easily among the best of the decade
9-In the Bedroom
10-Yi Yi
11-Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
12-Encounters at the End of the World
13-25th Hour
14-Fantastic Mr Fox
15-The Lives of Others
16-The Fountain

Excellent - Highly Recommended, but just missing the cut
17-Mulholland Drive
18-Y Tu Mama Tambien
19-Team America World Police

A lot of Positive Elements - Easy to Recommend
20-The Man Who Wasn't There
21-Requiem for a Dream
22-High Fidelity
23-City of God
24-The Bourne Ultimatum
25-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

A good watch.  Enjoyed it
26-Pan's Labyrinth
27-Joyeux Noël
28-I'm Not There
29-A Prairie Home Companion
30-The Hurt Locker

I can see the greatness , just wasn't able to connect to it completely
31-The Wind that Shakes the Barley
32-Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World
33-Capturing the Friedmans
34-Los Angeles Plays Itself
35-Apocolypto

Just Wasn't for me
36-The Squid and the Whale
37-Rivers and Tides: Art of Andy Goldsworthy
38-A History of Violence
39-Brick
40-My Winnipeg

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