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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #91 on: December 18, 2009, 06:23:51 PM »
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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #92 on: December 19, 2009, 11:30:25 PM »
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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #93 on: December 19, 2009, 11:33:06 PM »
I see what Ebert did there, but the it is still a cop-out.

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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #94 on: December 19, 2009, 11:47:59 PM »
I think it could easily be argued that about half of his Mainstream List are Indie films.  I'd like to believe we live in a world where Michael Haneke is mainstream, but we don't.

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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #95 on: December 19, 2009, 11:50:02 PM »
Was Knowing really a good film?  Top 10 ?
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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #96 on: December 19, 2009, 11:51:55 PM »
Was Knowing really a good film?  Top 10 ?

no, Ebert has a thing for Alex Proyas

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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #97 on: December 20, 2009, 12:01:20 AM »
I think it could easily be argued that about half of his Mainstream List are Indie films.  I'd like to believe we live in a world where Michael Haneke is mainstream, but we don't.

I'm guessing he just made a top twenty list and chose the ten films that could most easily be called mainstream.  I'm not sure what he wanted to accomplish by splitting that top twenty in two, because if anything it complicates things further, but whatever.  Oh, and Knowing is garbage.
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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #98 on: December 20, 2009, 01:52:45 AM »
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Re: 2009 Awards That Are Not Filmspots.
« Reply #99 on: December 20, 2009, 10:48:31 AM »
I like the thread he finds in these picks, but surprised "Up" didn't make the cut with 19(!) movies in the running.