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opalfilms.blogspot.com - 2/22/2009

Muriels: Best Picture, 25th Place

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Speed Racer (43 points/4 votes) “What do movies as disparate as It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra; 1947), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder; 1970), The Thing (John Carpenter; 1982) and Blade Runner (Ridley Scott; also 1982) have in common? On the surface, not much. However, ...

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MURIELS UPDATE: PERFORMANCES/PICTURES
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule — ... poetry, shifting, gliding perspectives and a velocity that pulsates with meaning and feeling, a movie so far ahead of the curve of the general audience (and levels of tolerance for its disorienting and radical visual grammar) that it might take at least 20 years, and a wave of failed, Wachowski-tinged pyrotechnical movie piracy, for it to be able to take its rightful place as a landmark of personal filmmaking in the blockbuster mode.” You can read the entire piece right here. Please check this space later today for more updates, or just click on the Muriel ...

Muriels Best Picture
100 films — ... , all the way down at #35. What's so great about this is all day I've been seeing films that maybe didn't do so well in the voting, but only because not many people got a chance to see them, especially me (but really, Dennis, Speed Racer ?). It's a fantastic way to fill out your Netflix queue. Every half hour there's a new one, thereby ensuring you won't get anything done all day, and I've still got a blurb left to come, so hopefully you don't see that one for a long, long time. Also, if I get motivated, I may write something in the next couple of days about why Wendy and ...