From personable "LA Weekly" film critic Karina Longworth.
10. ENTER THE VOID - Gaspar Noé
9. THE GHOST WRITER - Roman Polanski
8. SHUTTER ISLAND - Martin Scorsese
7. EVERYONE ELSE - Maren Ade
6. THE RED CHAPEL - Mads Brügger
5. SOMEWHERE - Sofia Coppola
4. DOGTOOTH - Giorgos Lanthimos
3. DADDY LONGLEGS - Josh and Benny Safdie
2. GREENBERG - Noah Baumbach
1. TRASH HUMPERS - Harmonie Korine
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
You call that a list? This is a list.
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"personable"?
She sounds nuts.
I take that back... The following quote from her article(even if completely wrong)is by far the most interesting thing I've ever read about "How do You Know:
An assessment of 2010 would be incomplete without mention of James L. Brooks' How Do You Know, which its distributor didn't screen for critics until after ballots for our poll were due. The filmmaker's most quotable feature since Broadcast News (and also his most creditably romantic), flabby and messy in a manner that marks it as uniquely Brooksian (he boldly lets certain scenes go on forever, expertly guiding their mutation from slapstick comic to deep poignancy and back again), How Do You Know steers clear of the knee-jerk clichés that are choking its genre. Its guiding influence seems to be Billy Wilder's The Apartment, up to and including a goofy yet wonderfully shaded turn from Paul Rudd in a part that could have been written for Jack Lemmon. Consider it No. 11 on this list; I have no doubt that it is the best studio romantic comedy of the year (a subject on which you can consider me an expert, as I reviewed most of them).
I also like that she refers to David Byrne and John Waters as "aging tastemakers."
Fucking boomers.
She's a keeper, I think. "Weekly" lucked out again; better than they deserve.
I have continually found her to be depressingly and predictably pretentious. She is worth reading based on her writing talent alone, but not on her taste. I read her for wit, but not for anything else.
I could get similar film recommendations at the average "Dwarves" show or at a "Velvet Underground" discussion group.
The inclusion of Polanski, Sofia Coppola, and "Greenberg" makes this list so completely disconnected from the mainstream that it can only be willfully so.
Agreement is way down on my list of reasons for admiring a critic. Good writing and wit much higher. And the element of surprise.
I concur. Her list just triggered my "anti-pretense" subroutine.
I have long admired her as a writer.
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