Episode 159 – Oscar Nominations / BLACK SWAN Reconsidered / THE KING’S SPEECH
Good Lord it’s the 2011 Oscar nominations folks! Listen in nail-biting suspense as Gareth and I discuss the possible winners, possible losers, who should have been nominated, who just doesn’t belong, all that plus thoughts on THE KING’S SPEECH and BLACK SWAN is reconsidered.
ENTER THE VOID – See the Uncut Version Tonight at Midnight – Nuart Los Angeles
This is it folks. Your chance to see the most extraordinary new film I’ve seen in the four years of recording The Film Talk: ENTER THE VOID.
Episode 158 – THE GREEN HORNET / SEASON OF THE WITCH / FOUR LIONS
Gareth and I discover the DR. STRANGELOVE of our generation: Chris Morris’ FOUR LIONS. Also SEASON OF THE WITCH and THE GREEN HORNET are mentioned for some reason. Other items of interest: The Big Bear Horro-Fi Festival and 6 Months that Changed a Year.
Finally: Gareth’s Top Ten of 2009
Hello there – with my heartfelt thanks to Jett for his magnificent job of minding the store alone for the past few weeks while I had the privilege of matrimonial gallivanting in Godzone, it’s a delight to be back in the world of TFT. I wrote at length before I disappeared about the year gone [...]
The Most Cinematic Experiences of the Year
Andrei Rublev Before we get too entrenched in the new year, a recap: 2009 was the richest year for US American movies since 1999, when my imagination was captured by ‘Magnolia’, the anti-war film was reinvented with ‘Three Kings’, Michael Mann made his best film so far in ‘The Insider’, ‘The Matrix’ set the bar [...]
TFT 104 – THE FILMS OF THE DECADE
TFT 104 / 28 mb MP3 / 58 minutes / DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: THE FOUNTAIN / AMORES PERROS / QUANTUM OF SOLACE AUSTRALIA / MIAMI VICE / GANGS OF NEW YORK THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA THE VILLAGE / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
81 Films of the Decade
In the year 2000 I was 25 and single, finishing up a Ph.D., stressed out of my tree, working with a small NGO on peace and non-violence issues, trying figure out what it was that I wanted to be when I grew up. Now as 2010 approaches, I’m a month away from being 35 and [...]
The 10 Most Underrated Films of the Decade
There’s an infinite amount of content out there Dear Reader – too many movies to possibly see – so how do ya find the good ones? Your gut feeling, your friends, reviewers you trust – these folks can steer you. But sometimes your gut is wrong, your friends wouldn’t know a Ti West film from [...]
Films of the Decade: The 'B' List
Records used to have ‘b’ sides, Armond White produces a ‘better than/worse than’ list every year, and the decade’s still winding down, which can only mean one thing: I’ve found a flimsy but good enough reason for today’s post: The Films I Liked in the 2000s but not enough to go to the mountaintop. Or [...]
The Most Over-Rated and Under-Rated Films of the Decade?
The Most Under-Rated Movie of the Last Ten Years? The decade draws to a close, and most of us will be feeling a sense of surreality as we reflect on what we were doing on New Year’s Eve 1999 – I was with four of my dearest friends; we had a gorgeous dinner by the [...]
