January 2011
6 posts
Log Lines
David Denby in the New Yorker:
Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is a luridly beautiful farrago—a violent fantasia that mixes the tensions of preparing a new production of “Swan Lake” with sex, blood, and horror-film flourishes.
Manohla Dargis in the New York Times:
A witchy brew of madness and cunning, “Black Swan” tells the story of a ballerina who aches, with battered feet and an...
“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the...”
– Flannery O’Connor in “Perchance to Dream: In the age of images, a reason to write novels” by Jonathan Franzen, reprinted in How to be Alone under the title “Why Bother?”
Top 10, Honourable Mentions, Unreleased &...
Top Ten 2010 (Expanded version of this list at The Pantograph Punch.)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé, France)
The Social Network (David Fincher, USA)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese, USA)
Boy (Taika Waititi, New Zealand)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (“Banksy,” UK/USA)
Lung Bunmi raluek chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul,...