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12/04/09
Lost in Translation
Marie Antoinette
Lovely and Amazing
Friends With Money
Love & Sex
The Holiday
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bride and Prejudice
Bend it Like Beckham
Of course, most of those movies would never make it onto any official best-of lists because they're comedies, but...
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(in no particular order)
American Psycho - Mary Harron
Bridget Jones' Diary - Sharon Maguire
Julie & Julia - Nora Ephron
Lost in Translation... AND
Marie Antoinette - Sofia Coppola
The Ballad of Jack and Rose - Rebecca Miller
Something's Gotta Give - Nancy Meyers
Wendy and Lucy - Kelly Reichardt
Bend it Like Beckham - Gurinder Chadha
and my fave:
WAITRESS by Adrienne Shelly
Special mention to Monster, the one with Charlize Theron, which was apparently excellent, but I didn't see it, so I can't rank it.
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And I love Bill Murray, madly. So I have no idea what to say when people talk about Sofia Coppola being such a great director in Lost In Translation. I think that film relies a lot -a LOT- on Bill Murray's performance and pathos. I don't think there was much directing there. But that's just my opinion, though.
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I wanted to like The Hurt Locker a lot more than I actually did. Part of the problem is just doesn't strike me as very rewatchable and I don't know that there's really that much to get out of it.
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I sound pretentious, but I don't mean it. Also Bill Murray singing "More than this" is better than ice cream and chocolate.
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I agree with you about The Hurt Locker. I actually liked it a lot, but it is true that is not rewatchable. I think part of the problem is that the plot seems to lead you nowhere.
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That was the last movie I enjoyed with Bill Murray (Team Chevy!) and mostly for the reason you mention.
Those silences are like invitations to fill in the blanks.
"The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thank you, my darling!
P.S: Congratulations on your bestie JPEG, it's very funny!
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Honestly, none of the movies in my top ten have female directors.
Have you seen Koreeda's Nobody Knows by chance?
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Uhh... yeah, there's no way a female directed film would be in my top ten from this decade. I don't even have a top ten and I'm sure of that. The only film on that list that would probably end up on a top ten for me is Fog Of War. But I'm a huge Errol Morris fan AND a history nerd... plus I just think it's impeccably crafted.
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I just made my top ten in no particular order:
The Professional
The Road
Nobody Knows
Dancer in the Dark
25th Hour
Control
The Color of Paradise
City of God
All That Jazz
Underground (Kusturica)
(I know All That Jazz is not from the 90s but I love it and add it to all of my top 10 lists).
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Something magical happened at the end of September in New York and I saw them perform three times in a weekend.
PhoenixFest 9/24-9/26. Never forget.
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It blew me away.
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Fran, the bodysuit is not Frantastic.
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