It has become clearer than ever that the movie year is divided into two parts. There’s the first nine months, which are filled, it seems, with big-audience digital spectacles about men who fly, animated movies about indignant handheld devices and chatty rodents, and all-male comedies about virgins lost in a condom factory. And then there’s the Oscar-focussed final three months of the year, which are devoted to movies about failure, abjection, death, and the Holocaust, most of them starring Kate Winslet or Cate Blanchett.
–David Denby (via tylercoates)
True that. All the best movies you’ll never hear about come out in December/January. For 2007 it was The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, In The Valley of Elah and Michael Clayton. If you haven’t seen these three movies go out and rent them immediately. Some of the best work that Casey Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Tom Wilkinson ever did.
Update(12/24): I can’t believe I forgot to mention I’m Not There starring too many great actors to list.
Via Tyler Coates
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