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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Critics Choices</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/critics-choices/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>Jeff Bridges, Best Actor: Critics Choice Award</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-best-actor-critics-choice-award-844/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-best-actor-critics-choice-award-844/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:02:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20852</guid> <description><![CDATA[&#34;What am I wearing?&#34; that's best actor winner Jeff Bridges (for Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart), having to look inside his tux to figure out who designed it. As for the his chances of taking home a best actor Academy Award, Bridges remarked he wasn't counting &#34;the chickens&#34; though he was thankful because &#34;these awards, that's how we get people into the theaters.&#34; Bridges, who thus [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/jeff-bridges-best-actor-critics-choice-award-844/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>UP IN THE AIR &#8211; US Critics&#039; Top Screenplay</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/up-in-the-air-critics-top-screenplay-889/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/up-in-the-air-critics-top-screenplay-889/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:40:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20248</guid> <description><![CDATA[George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner's screenplay for Up in the Air is the #1 winner among North American critics groups, with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds coming in second place. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's (500) Days of Summer, a boy meets girl tale in which things don't quite go as planned, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/up-in-the-air-critics-top-screenplay-889/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mo&#039;Nique &#8211; US Critics&#039; Top Supporting Actress</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/monique-critics-top-supporting-actress-128/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/monique-critics-top-supporting-actress-128/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:38:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20249</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mo'Nique in Precious (Anne Marie Fox / Lionsgate) Like Christoph Waltz in the best supporting actor category, Mo'Nique &#8212; who plays a nasty mother in Lee Daniels' Precious &#8212; is by far the North American critics' top choice for best supporting actress of 2009: 17 wins and counting, in addition to awards at both the Sundance and Stockholm film festivals. Mo'Nique has also nabbed SAG, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/monique-critics-top-supporting-actress-128/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Christoph Waltz: US Critics&#039; Favorite Supporting Actor of 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/christoph-waltz-critics-favorite-supporting-actor-889/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/christoph-waltz-critics-favorite-supporting-actor-889/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:36:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20219</guid> <description><![CDATA[Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds (François Duhamel / The Weinstein Co.) If US critics found only two lead actresses to vote for in 2009 (Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan), they had an even tougher time finding a supporting actor. Or perhaps it was just his own thespian brilliance that made Christoph Waltz walk away with nearly every critics' award out there. With more than 90 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/christoph-waltz-critics-favorite-supporting-actor-889/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan: US Critics&#039; Best Actresses of 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/meryl-streep-carey-mulligan-best-actress-889/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/meryl-streep-carey-mulligan-best-actress-889/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:22:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20215</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meryl Streep in Julie &#38; Julia (Columbia Pictures) (top); Carey Mulligan in An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) Only two actresses delivered great performances in 2009, at least as far as most US-based critics' groups were concerned: veteran Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Julie &#38; Julia, and newcomer Carey Mulligan as a daring schoolgirl in 1960s London in An Education. The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/meryl-streep-carey-mulligan-best-actress-889/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>George Clooney Tops US Critics&#039; 2009 Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-clooney-critics-awards-2009-888/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-clooney-critics-awards-2009-888/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:59:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20211</guid> <description><![CDATA[George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) With ten wins from groups as diverse as the 75-year-old New York Film Critics Circle and the recently formed Indiana Film Journalists Association, George Clooney was the actor of choice of most US-based critics' groups. Clooney has received the best reviews of his career for his performance as a corporate-downsizing expert in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/george-clooney-critics-awards-2009-888/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow: US Critics&#039; Top Director</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-critics-top-director-112/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-critics-top-director-112/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:22:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20202</guid> <description><![CDATA[Although The Hurt Locker was eligible for last year's Spirit Awards, neither the Iraq War drama nor director Kathryn Bigelow (above) were nominated. But a year &#8212; and lots of good buzz &#8212; can make a hell of a difference. That's why Bigelow is now considered the front-runner for the best director Oscar even if Jason Reitman's Up in the Air or (Bigelow's former husband) [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-critics-top-director-112/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>UP, FANTASTIC MR. FOX: US Critics&#039; Top Animated Features</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/up-fantastic-mr-fox-critics-awards-722/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/up-fantastic-mr-fox-critics-awards-722/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:56:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20192</guid> <description><![CDATA[Pete Docter's Up (Disney / Pixar) (top); Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox Searchlight Pictures) (bottom) Although Pete Docter's Up was expected to have the animation year-end awards field all to itself, it ultimately had to face tough competition from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, which features the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Jason Schwartzman, among others. Up has won awards from at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/animation/up-fantastic-mr-fox-critics-awards-722/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE COVE Is US Critics Groups&#039; Top Documentary</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-cove-critics-groups-documentary-765/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-cove-critics-groups-documentary-765/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:09:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20167</guid> <description><![CDATA[Louie Psihoyos' The Cove (above), about the annual slaughter of dolphins at a small Japanese village, has thus far been the various US critics groups' favorite documentary. The runner-up is Sacha Gervasi's Anvil! The Story of Anvil, which has been referred to as This Is Spinal Tap for real. (However, there have been accusations that Anvil! isn't technically a &#34;documentary&#34; as its chronology is supposed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-cove-critics-groups-documentary-765/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SIN NOMBRE, THE WHITE RIBBON, SUMMER HOURS: Foreign Language Film Favorites of 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sin-nombre-the-white-ribbon-summer-hours-887/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sin-nombre-the-white-ribbon-summer-hours-887/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:53:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20138</guid> <description><![CDATA[Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores in Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre (Focus Features)(top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (Films du Losange / Sony Pictures Classics) (middle); Penelope Cruz in Pedro Almodóvar's Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda &#38; Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom) Sin Nombre, a Mexican-American co-production directed by Cary Fukunaga and featuring Stockholm Film Festival best actor winner Edgar Flores, has [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sin-nombre-the-white-ribbon-summer-hours-887/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Is US Critics&#039; Favorite</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-american-critics-favorite-654/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-american-critics-favorite-654/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:44:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20131</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) Thus far, The Hurt Locker is the top choice among American film critics. The Iraq War drama directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, has won about a dozen awards from US-based critics' groups, including those from the country's three largest metropolitan areas: New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Although The Hurt [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-american-critics-favorite-654/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Toronto 2009: IndieWIRE&#039;s Critics&#039; Poll</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/toronto-2009-indiewire-critics-poll/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/toronto-2009-indiewire-critics-poll/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:07:47 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16541</guid> <description><![CDATA[Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); Joel and Ethan Coen (bottom) Peter Knegt reports that an indieWIRE poll of &#34;more than 25&#34; film critics and bloggers (blogging film critics?) shows that the overwhelmingly favorite film screened at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival was Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man (not to be confused with Tom Ford's A Single Man or the Michael Douglas [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/toronto-2009-indiewire-critics-poll/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films of 2008: LA WEEKLY/VILLAGE VOICE Poll</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-films-of-2008-la-weekly-village-voice/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-films-of-2008-la-weekly-village-voice/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:43:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6422</guid> <description><![CDATA[J. Hoberman in The Village Voice: &#34;All hail Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E — even us! Sometimes, the movies really are universal. And so a major studio’s mainstream, multiplex, mega-million-dollar-grossing, Oscar-friendly “summer movie” resoundingly won the ninth annual Village Voice–L. A. Weekly poll of (mainly) alt-press critics, named on 35 of 80 ballots. &#34;Unlike last year, when Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood materialized in late [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-films-of-2008-la-weekly-village-voice/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>indieWIRE&#039;s Critics&#039; Poll: Top Ten</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/indiewire-critics-poll-top-ten/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/indiewire-critics-poll-top-ten/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:03:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15779</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve in A Christmas Tale Best Films of 2008: indieWIRE's Critics' Poll # BEST FILM Points Mentions 1 The Flight of the Red Balloon 495 43 2 A Christmas Tale 454 38 3 WALL-E 368 32 4 Wendy and Lucy 366 36 5 Happy-Go-Lucky 346 31 6 Paranoid Park 335 31 7 Still Life 330 31 8 Silent Light 310 26 9 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/indiewire-critics-poll-top-ten/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films of 2008: indieWIRE&#039;s Critics&#039; Poll</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/best-films-of-2008-indiewire-critics-poll/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/best-films-of-2008-indiewire-critics-poll/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:02:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=6067</guid> <description><![CDATA[The most curious thing about indieWIRE's 2008 poll of 105 North American film critics is that thus far only six of those critics' top-ten films have gone on to win awards (film/director/screenplay) from US/Canada critics' groups. WALL-E has been the top choice in the animated feature category and was even voted the best film of 2008 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, which, spreading [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/best-films-of-2008-indiewire-critics-poll/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Top Ten Canadian Films of 2008</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/canadian-cinema/top-ten-canadian-films-of-2008/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/canadian-cinema/top-ten-canadian-films-of-2008/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:46:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=5930</guid> <description><![CDATA[Top Ten Canadian Feature Films of 2008 (in alphabetical order, including future release dates) Adoration (above) – Atom Egoyan (Entertainment One/Seville Pictures, May 2009) Before Tomorrow – Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu (Alliance Films, February 2009) Ce qu’il faut pour vivre (The Necessities of Life) – Benoit Pilon (Entertainment One/Seville Pictures) C'est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear!) – Philippe [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/canadian-cinema/top-ten-canadian-films-of-2008/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The LONDON TIMES&#039; Worst Films of 2008</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/the-london-times-worst-films-of-2008/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/the-london-times-worst-films-of-2008/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:58:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=5652</guid> <description><![CDATA[A few days ago, the London Times published its list of the top 100 films of 2008. Now, it offers its list of the bottom 100 films of 2008. Here's wondering if there'll be much of an overlap. Below are a few sample comments: The Hottie &#38; The Nottie (top photo): &#34;The most eagerly hated movie in America is a tongue-in-cheek homage to Paris Hilton [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/the-london-times-worst-films-of-2008/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The LONDON TIMES&#039; Top 100 Films of 2008</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/london-times-top-100-films-of-2008/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/london-times-top-100-films-of-2008/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:38:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=5375</guid> <description><![CDATA[Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (top); Time and Winds by Reha Erdem (bottom) The London and the Sunday Times critics are apparently quite easy to please. They've come up with a list of no less than 100 Best Films for one single year: 2008. Among the best of the best found in the Times list are masterpieces such as: Cloverfield (&#34;An hour in I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/london-times-top-100-films-of-2008/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Erik Childress&#039; Top Ten Criticwatch Whores of 2007</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/erik-childress-top-ten-criticwatch-whores-of-2007/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/erik-childress-top-ten-criticwatch-whores-of-2007/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:07:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/online-news/erik-childress-top-ten-criticwatch-whores-of-2007/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Highly recommended reading: Erik Childress' &#34;Criticwatch 2007 &#8211; The Whores of the Year and the Axing of Pete Hammond&#34; at EFilmCritic.com. Here's a snippet from Childress' piece: &#34;You may remember from last year that we created a new award for the critic who displayed an incredible amount of supercilious douchebaggery. In 2006 the award went to Good Morning America's Joel Siegel after storming out of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/erik-childress-top-ten-criticwatch-whores-of-2007/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Top Ten (Worst) Top-Ten Critics Lists at The Reeler</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/top-ten-films-worst-critics-lists/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/top-ten-films-worst-critics-lists/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:31:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/online-news/top-ten-films-worst-critics-lists/</guid> <description><![CDATA[S. T. VanAirsdale disses &#34;best of the year&#34; listmakers by coming up with his own list of &#34;top 10 of top 10&#34; (worst) listmakers in The Reeler. Among the ridiculed listers are Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Lyons of E!, and Transformers fan Sean Elliott of iF Magazine. Here's VanAirsdale's intro: &#34;As you might expect in a year credited with one of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/top-ten-films-worst-critics-lists/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/village-voice-javier-bardem-cate-blanchett/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/village-voice-javier-bardem-cate-blanchett/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:46:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17457</guid> <description><![CDATA[VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Part I Best Supporting Actor: 1 Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men 2 Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford 3 Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild 4 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War 5 Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood 6 Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 7 Tom Wilkinson, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/village-voice-javier-bardem-cate-blanchett/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Films of 2007: VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY Film Poll</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-films-of-2007-village-voice-la-weekly/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-films-of-2007-village-voice-la-weekly/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:45:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-films-of-2007-village-voice-la-weekly/</guid> <description><![CDATA[J. Hoberman, discussing the results of a &#34;best of the year&#34; poll of 56 American critics, in the Village Voice: &#34;Why shouldn't we be preoccupied with homicidal sociopaths? America's been at war for the past four and a half years &#8212; with, to cite the top-polling documentary, No End in Sight (#29). War makes you wonder what exactly defines murder and who is enabled to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-films-of-2007-village-voice-la-weekly/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>U.S. Critics&#039; Awards 2007</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/us-critics-awards-2007/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/us-critics-awards-2007/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:05:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/us-critics-awards-2007/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men Much has been said about the absence of a front-runner for this year's Academy Awards. Be that as it may, one film is clearly the favorite among the myriad film critics' groups in the United States. Directed and written by Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men has been chosen the top film of 2007 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/us-critics-awards-2007/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Critics&#039; Influence on the Oscars</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/critics-influence-on-the-oscars/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/critics-influence-on-the-oscars/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:10:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=17302</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kevin Spacey, Mena Suvari in American Beauty Critics and Awards Season: Part I It's too bad that U.S. film critics have such short memories &#8212; see Jack Mathews' top comment in the previous page &#8212; as Once is the type of small, foreign film that needs year-end critics' awards so Academy members can a) become aware of its existence b) check it out. Here's wondering [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/critics-influence-on-the-oscars/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Critics and Awards Season</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/critics-awards-oscars-film-criticism/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/critics-awards-oscars-film-criticism/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:09:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/critics-awards-oscars-film-criticism/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova in Once Jack Mathews' &#34;Next Up in Oscar Race: Voters Who Matter&#34; in the New York Daily News: &#34;It's been fun watching the evolution of the awards, as critics' groups narrowed the field with their collective awards while breaking the hearts of many of the individual members. Movies that will end up on many top 10 lists didn't even get a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/critics-awards-oscars-film-criticism/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Best Unreleased Films of 2007</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/best-unreleased-films-of-2007/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/best-unreleased-films-of-2007/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:54:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/online-news/best-unreleased-films-of-2007/</guid> <description><![CDATA[At Filmcritic.com, Chris Cabin offers a highly eclectic list of the top unreleased (in the US, that is) films of 2007, ranging from Catherine Breillat's The Old Mistress (right) to Mamoru Oshii's The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food Grifters. Some of these titles will get a US release in 2008. A sample commentary: &#34;For those with strong stomachs only: György Palfi's Taxidermia overloads with [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/best-unreleased-films-of-2007/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>indieWIRE Poll 2007</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/indiewire-poll-2008/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/indiewire-poll-2008/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 06:55:08 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/critics-poll-indiewire/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Via indieWIRE &#8212; &#34;The Critics Speak: Best, Worst, the Auteurs and the Underrated.&#34; Below are a couple of sample quotes: &#34;More people in our world will see Juno than 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. More will see 300 than Offside. More will see Saw IV than There Will Be Blood [above]. Yet we fight on, championing those films that really mean something to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/indiewire-poll-2008/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Top Ten Undistributed Films in the US in 2007</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/top-ten-undistributed-films-2007/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/top-ten-undistributed-films-2007/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:25:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/online-news/top-ten-undistributed-films-2007/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeon do-yeong in Secret Sunshine Anthony Kaufman at indieWIRE: &#34;What is it about Korean auteurs that have critics salivating and distributors running for the exits? Last year, Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach topped indieWIRE's best undistributed films list for 2007. This year, Hong compatriot Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine was far-and-way the winner of the honor. Thirty-four of the 106 critics surveyed in the 2007 [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-movies/top-ten-undistributed-films-2007/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Critics&#039; Choices</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/richard-corliss-critics-article/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/richard-corliss-critics-article/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:56:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/richard-corliss-critics-article/</guid> <description><![CDATA[In Time, Richard Corliss on the New York Film Critics' picks: &#34;I sprinted down the corridors of TIME this afternoon, eager to spread the news of the New York Film Critics Circle voting for the year's best films. The winner, in the film, director, screenplay and supporting actor categories? The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, which three different people told me they'd been [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/richard-corliss-critics-article/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Michael Caine Thriller GET CARTER Tops Best British Films</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/british-critics-pick-best-british-films/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/british-critics-pick-best-british-films/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2004 06:43:48 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/world-cinema/european-cinema/british-critics-pick-best-british-films/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Total Film magazine recently asked twenty-five British film critics to come up with their choices of the best British films ever made. The result is somewhat surprising, with the 1971 Mike Hodges-directed thriller Get Carter, starring Michael Caine and some scary-looking weaponry, was selected as Britain’s very best movie ever. Other top-ten surprises include Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979), seen by many Christians as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/european-cinema/british-critics-pick-best-british-films/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
