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Another Top Ten List
Awards Daily's Oscar Countdown —
... You know the movie scene leaves much to be desired when Kris Tapley over at Incontention lists Bolt as his number 2. Tapley wrote up his year’s end column, capping it off with a top ten that looks like it’s the top ten but it turns out those were the runners-up. His real list is: ...
Award Season Watch: San Fran, Phoenix, San Diego And St. Louis Critics Laud Usual Suspects, Mostly 'Slumdog Millionaire'
:: The Playlist :: —
... Kris Tapley's populist top 10 list is a head scratcher or maybe reveals something about his taste, "Slumdog Millionaire," is number 1, but number 2 is "Bolt" and "Pineapple Express" is number 4. Maybe it's reverse snob contrarianism. Whatever floats your boat we guess. [IC] ...
Quite a Pair
Carpetbagger —
... , did not want to split their hearts in two, so they gave both “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Wall-E” honors for best film of the year. No surprise then that Kris Tapley, the bright young thing of Kudoville, decided to also pick the heart-warming live action film and the animated one as well. But then, you might not have guessed that Kris Tapley chose “Bolt,” not “Wall-E,” as the film that was second only to “Slumdog.” Do not adjust your monitors. I went there. And unapologetically, because much like David Gordon Green’s “Pineapple Express,” Brian Howard and Chris ...
Celebrate Our Winners! The 2008 Top 10 of Top 10 Lists, Part II [Year In Review]
Gawker: defamer —
Believe it or not, there are five critics whose year-end Top 10 lists are even more mystifying, patience-testing and all-around terrible than those five awarded here yesterday. And the Listys go to... 5. Kristopher Tapley, In Contention Like his Top 10 Top 10 classmate Michael Wilmington before him, Tapley's taste for esoterica is less egregious than his inability to keep his meals down. Take for starters this blurb-spray spattering The Incredible Hulk with a monolithic, almost steroidal grandeur: Louis ...
Oscars: 10 Unlikely Nominations We’d Like To See
SpoutBlog —
... Mark Walton’s voice acting, “the closest I’ve ever come to considering a vocal performance Oscar-worthy since Ellen Degeneres in ‘Finding Nemo.’” I don’t necessarily agree with Tapley’s decision to put Bolt at #2 on his Best of 2008 list, but I would love to see a non-actor like Walton be recognized non-traditionally for vocal work, a form of acting that doesn’t garner enough consideration. Who needs big name casting in an animated film when a storyboard artist gives a more hilarious vocal performance than even Jack Black? ...
Should the Oscars Nominate Certain Films to Obtain Better TV Ratings?
RopeofSilicon.com —
... consider television ratings when picking their year's best? Instead of voting The Dark Knight as their fourth or fifth favorite film of 2008 should it move up to #1 or #2, simply to ensure it gets nominated and therefore excites the general public into watching their show?
One of the more vocal Oscar bloggers upset with the decision to not include The Dark Knight as one of the five Best Picture nominees was Kris Tapley at In Contention, but based on his top ten films of 2008 and the way the Academy counts the votes his pick for ...
Wishing Adam Yauch a speedy recovery
In Contention —
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch (aka MCA) has been diagnosed with cancer in his salivary gland. We at In Contention wish him a fast and speedy recovery following his upcoming surgery.
A lifelong Beasties fan I may be (I’ve seen them live twice here in LA), but Yauch is also a hero to the independent film community. His cinema division Oscilloscope Pictures is a welcome haven amid studio dominance. And in its maiden year, the distribution wing gave us two of 2008’s most intriguing films, “Dear Zachary” (which landed on my top 10 list) and “Wendy and Lucy” (which landed on ...
Prince of the city
In Contention —
I have Chad to thank for pointing me to this Criterion DVD cover (pictured left) for Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah,” a film you may remember we kind of liked here at In Contention. Chad is no fan of the cover art (which of course riffs on one of the film’s most widely publicized images), and a number of readers at The Auteurs seem to be with him.
Dare I say I rather like it? The symbolism may be a tad obvious, but it captures the misjudged sense of invicibility that infects many of the film’s characters, and the layout is clean yet ...
