tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68247616880095770642011-04-21T10:40:19.355-07:00A bilingual blog about Film, Opera, Theatre and NYJohanneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05415852903691114044noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824761688009577064.post-26610882692737438532009-01-01T06:11:00.000-08:002009-01-01T06:26:41.940-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><div>Here is my list for the best movies of last year. Most of the titles are more than a year old, but they have only been released in the country in which I have seen them this year. Please, mind the gaps. If you haven't seen these films... what are you waiting for?</div><div><br /></div>1. Flight of the red balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)<br />2. Still Life (Jia Zhan Ke)<br />3. L’heure d’été (Olivier Assayas)<br />4. Santiago (Joao Moreira Salles)<br />5. Un conte de Noël (Arnaud Desplechin)<br />6. Les chansons d’amour (Christophe Honoré)<br />7. Silent light (Carlos Reygadas)<br />8. The banishment (Andrei Zvyangintsev)<br />9. Auf der anderen Seite (Fatih Akin)<br />10. Encounters at the end of the world (Werner Herzog)<br /><br />Still haven’t seen Wall-E, Entre les murs, among others. I know I haven’t included any English language film… maybe next year if only The Road is half as good as the book (which I doubt).<br /><br />Best actor: Mathieu Amalric in La question humaine (Nicolas Klotz)<br /><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Best actress: Kristin Scott Thomas in Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (Philippe Claudel) (even though she was too intense in the beginning) and Juliette Binoche in Flight of the red balloon<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Best supporting actor: Mathieu Amalric in Un conte de Noël<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Best supporting actress: Anne Consigny in Un conte de Noël and Penélpe Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Woody Allen)<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Worst Movie: Indiana 4 (Steven Spielberg)<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Worst Movie that I did not even have to watch to know it was bad: Australia (Baz Lurhmann)<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Most over-hyped Movie: Milk (Gus Van Sant), Gomorra (Matteo Garrone), Rachel getting married (Jonathan Demme)<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Worst piece of Euro Art-trash: The duchess of Langeais (Éric Rohmer) and La fille coupée en deux (Claude Chabrol)<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Most boring movie: Burn after reading (Cohen bros.)<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Most pleasant surprise: Ne le dis à personne (Guillaume Canet)<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">Most unpleasant surprise: the last two Sundance winner: Sangre de mi sangre (Christopher Zalla) and Frozen river (Courtney Hunt)<br /><br />Luckily in 2009, Almodóvar, Von Trier and Haneke will be back; at least, they will be fun to watch...<br /><br /></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6824761688009577064-2661088269273743853?l=mildundleise.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johanneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05415852903691114044noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6824761688009577064.post-77601925484430799812009-01-01T06:06:00.000-08:002009-01-01T06:10:34.004-08:00...are the first words of Isoldes Libestod from Wagner's Tristan un Isolde; simply, the greatest artistic creation ever accomplished by humankind<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=qGbmjX7AYyU&amp;feature=related">Here</a> is Waltraud Meier's take on the role.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6824761688009577064-7760192548443079981?l=mildundleise.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Johanneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05415852903691114044noreply@blogger.com0