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Best in film in 2009: Online Film Critics

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The Online Film Critics Society has released the list of nominees for 2009. The winners will be known on January 6. BEST PICTURE The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds A Serious Man Up Up in the Air BEST DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Neill Blomkamp, District 9 James Cameron, Avatar Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds BEST ACTOR Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Sharlto Copley, District 9 George Clooney, Up in the Air Joaquin [Read more...]

Empire names 500 Greatest Movies of All Time

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Empire magazine has posted the list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time. The Godfather, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Empire Strikes Back took the first three spots, while the usual number one, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, ended up in the 28th place. Empire polled 150 film directors, 50 critics and more than 10,000 members of the public for the top 500 list and the list is definitely a colourful one to behold, with recent hits such as The Dark Knight (#15) side by side with old favourites [Read more...]

American Film Institute names top 10 genre films

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The American Film Institute has compiled lists of top 10 movies made in 10 different genres: animation, fantasy, gangster, science fiction, western, sports, mystery, romantic comedy, courtroom drama and epic. Ballots included 50 movies for each of the genres and the best movies were chosen by actors, critics and other film industry insiders. Here are the lists: ANIMATION 1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 2. Pinocchio (1940) 3. Bambi (1942) 4. The Lion King (1994) 5. [Read more...]

Cahiers du cinema: 100 most beautiful films in the world

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Cult French film magazine Cahiers du cinema has published the list of the 100 most beautiful films in the world. Here they are: Citizen Kane - Orson Welles The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) - Jean Renoir Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (L’Aurore) - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau L’Atalante - Jean Vigo M - Fritz Lang Singin' in the Rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock Children of Paradise (Les [Read more...]