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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

The Trouble With Joaquin Phoenix

Thanks to to commenter yesterday who reminded me that I needed to address this annoying news (it dropped over the weekend but it seems that I'd already begun blocking it out since it makes me so angry) -- on Friday it was announced (or more likely leaked) that Joaquin Phoenix had abandoned the hot-and-heavy 1930s-set gay drama that he was about to film with legendary director Todd Haynes. And when I say "about to film" I really mean just that -- they were five days from the shoot beginning, which means it would've started filming tomorrow.

I posted about this movie just once previously, when Todd Haynes first talked about it in an interview back in September -- by now you probably know the details: that Joaquin brought it to Haynes himself as an idea and they'd work-shopped it out and Joaquin was pushing to make it NC-17 levels of sexually explicit. But for some reason -- a reason we haven't gotten told yet -- Joaquin balked and walked. I've heard lots of conjecture -- that Joaquin became afraid of the sex scenes or that Joaquin wanted the sex scenes to go further than Haynes even wanted to take them (I have a hard time buying that one), along with various other theories. But nobody who seems to have real answers is giving them out. All we have is Killer Films iconic producer Christine Vachon calling the experience a nightmare on social media:

Fuck Joaquin pic.twitter.com/vxazIQIrIE
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) August 10, 2024

Joaquin has done this before -- most directors have spoken about what a total pain in the ass he is, and he's had to be dragged back to movies kicking and screaming several times. I would say I don't understand why he keeps getting work, but indeed the work, when they get it from him, does speak for itself. I don't know that it would be worth it to me, as a creative person being forced to deal with him, but that's on other people to choose -- I don't have to deal with him, I just get to enjoy the fruits of their painful labor. If those directors feel it's worth the effort, it's their choice. Pro-choice, baby!

That said this especially pisses me off because Todd Haynes is 63 years old and probably only has a handful of movies left in him, and this neurotic douchebag just wasted more or less two years of Haynes' creative life for nothing. It's not like it's getting easier for iconoclasts like Haynes to make movies. Joaquin can go roll around in the twenty million bucks he got from Warner Brothers for the Joker sequel -- Todd Haynes is back to the drawing board, ekeing out financing for whatever small movie he can cobble together next. And I don't want to limit my outrage to Haynes' experience -- he has a filmography of notable masterpieces stretching back decades and a million actors who will happily sign up to work with him. Haynes will be okay, especially compared to all of the nameless crew members that just got dicked out of months of work because of, as a wise man once put it...

Anyway I hope Carol star and Joaquin wife Rooney Mara spent all weekend smacking the shit out of Joaquin -- he has it coming. I also wish the best to Top Gun Maverick actor Danny Ramirez, who was set to be Joaquin's co-star in the movie, which surely would've been a huge break for him, probably akin to what happened with Charles Melton in May December. Go and build a whole movie around Danny for us, Todd!

Monday, October 10, 2022

Pics of the Day

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If you're not already following me on Instagram this is me saying "Go do that" because I'm in the thick of the New York Film Festival right now and you'll get to see photos and videos from the screenings and press conferences I'm currently attending, not to mention all of the really dumb photos I take of clouds. Above is from this morning's post-screening Q&A of Sarah Polley's film Women Talking (which I totally loved by the way, in case I don't end up writing a review) -- coincidentally that movie just got a trailer! So I'll share that too.

Women Talking plays at NYFF tonight and tomorrow

and then hits select theaters on December 2nd.

Friday, February 11, 2022

They Should Call It "Thirty Love" Honestly

I say this every time another one gets announced, but Luca Guadagnino has so many projects lined up that we should never get too excited about each announcement before they start filming -- that said today's big news via THR has some major names attached, so I feel like a studio would be dumb to not move heaven and not-heaven to get this in front of cameras right quick. Titled Challengers it's a tennis rivalry drama, which would have Josh O'Connor facing off against West Side Story break-out Mike Faist on the court (yes, the short white shorts should already be dancing in your head). Mike's trainer is a former player and also his current girlfriend, played by no less than Zendaya herself; she was previously with O'Connor's character, which is why the two former best friends are no longer. So basically it's a romantic triangle in tennis shorts -- be still my everything. And naturally, since you know I'm thinking it, let's cross our fingers that there's more than "friendship" between Josh & Mike's characters, because romantic triangles need to be a whole lot gayer in 2022 to be interesting dammit. Luca knows this if anybody knows this. We're currently waiting for Luca's cannibal romance Bones and All with Timothée Chalamet to come out (hopefully this year, it was filmed ages ago); after that he's got the Audrey Hepburn movie with Rooney Mara and then that Bridesheads Revisited miniseries lined up. And this is just the most likely stuff.

Friday, January 07, 2022

Breakfast At Rooney's

I don't know why anybody drops big news like this on a Thursday night -- wait until assholes like me are at our desks so we can parrot it in nearly one million identical posts! -- but last night Deadline reported that the very talented actress Rooney Mara will star in an Audrey Hepburn bio-pic directed by one Luca Guadagnino. I think after movies like My Week With Marilyn, Jackie and Spencer -- and yes, one wonders how Pablo Larraín feels about this news today! -- proved that we can make successful and interesting biopics of people we used to think would be untouchable because of how iconic they still are all these many years on, this one proved inevitable. (We're also getting Baz Luhrmann's movie about Elvis soon, too.)

But really what does the general populace even know about Audrey Hepburn at this point? I very much count myself as a fan but that's of her performances -- the woman behind Holly Golightly I know very little about. I was 16 when she died and I remember her as a nice old lady who did a lot of charity work, but I've never read a biography of her or seen a documentary -- Audrey the person is a total mystery to me. So I say bring it on. Guadagnino has been sharpening his teeth on fashion short films for the past few years in between his movies and I think those, more than anything, will have prepared him for this. You can't think Audrey without thinking Fashion. And on that front Rooney fits the bill. And yes I love Rooney and think she's the perfect choice, by the way. I might not know much about Audrey but I do know if Audrey was around today she'd be the one talking about how she'd never eaten pie before, that much of I am certain. Thoughts?

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Guillermo's Making Our Nightmares Come True

Kind of flummoxed and flabbergasted when I searched the site this morning and realized I never posted the first trailer for Guillermo Del Toro's forthcoming Nightmare Alley -- the original with Tyrone Power is a fave (it just got a Criterion release not too long ago) and the cast that Del Toro has gathered up, including Bradley Cooper and Cate Blanchett and Toni Collette and Rooney Mara and Richard Jenkins and Willem Dafoe, well, that says it. Oh and it's set in, and was filmed in, Buffalo, not far from where I grew up. Anyway I didn't write up that first trailer back in September because Nathaniel beat me to the punch over at The Film Experience -- see that here.

Or don't, because we have a new trailer today, and here I am writing it up. Guillermo Del Toro's Nightmare Alley is actually out pretty soon -- and yes I realize that saying December 17th is "pretty soon" is enough to send anyone with half a brain spiraling into a panic about how the fuck is it already almost Christmas and oh my god I haven't bought a fucking thing and... et cetera, et cetera. The "pretty soon" equals out to "29 days" and yeah, that's pretty soon. And here's the full trailer they're making their final case with. You decide!

If you've got any thoughts on it in the comments let me know -- I need no convincing on seeing this because of that damn cast... also I already have a screening of this scheduled even sooner than 29 days from now; I'm seeing this in two weeks! I think it looks like fun though and there are some stellar shots in there -- the one of the bloody angel in the snow (pretty sure that's Rooney, and if you've seen the original film you know what's happening here) is giving off super duper Crimson Peak energy and I am as always here for that.

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Good Morning, World

Today is the international holiday known as Ben Whishaw's birthday -- our great gay hope is turning 41 today! How are you celebrating? I am celebrating by sharing with you people a dozen or so gifs of him and Andrew Leung rolling around in bed in the opening scenes of the lovely 2014 film Lilting, and then continuing to celebrate by spending the rest of the day thinking about them. Let's quick look at what Ben has coming up ahead work-wise...

... he is in Sarah Polley's next film called Women Talking (I wrote about it here), which is just about as exciting a collaboration as I can imagine. Then you add on the rest of the cast -- Jessie Buckley! Rooney Mara! Claire Foy! Frances f'ing McDormand! I will take one big heaping portion of that, please. The other thing he's got lined up is a British series called This Is Going To Hurt, which has him playing a young doctor in a maternity ward. Everyone involved is very British so I'm clueless, but if it stars Ben I will watch the thing. Hit the jump for more gifs...

I Am Link

--- Now Them's Some Women -- I was already pleased as a punch to the happy-places when it was announced back in December that not only was Sarah Polley planning on directing her first new movie in nine years (an adaptation of the book Women Talking) but that it was going to star Frances f'ing McDormand, so trying to measure my renewed enthusiasm when a big batch of absolute queens were further announced to fill out the film's cast this week would be a folly's errand. Stratospheric shit! Said queens include Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Ben f'ing Whishaw, oh my! The story "follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men." This is gonna be something y'all.

--- Friends No More -- I'll admit that my enthusiasm for In Bruges director Martin McDonagh has been dulled a bit by the projects he's done since that -- Seven Psychopaths and especially Three Billboards (ugh) were big letdowns for me -- but today's news that he's reuniting with the stars of his original masterpiece, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, for his next one well that gives me renewed vim n' vigor, McDonagh-wise. The film will be called The Banshees of Inisherin and will film in August and is about a pair of lifelong friends who're navigating the awkward space where they no longer want to be friends.

--- Ain't No Mountain -- Similarly it's hard to get too worked up over a new Doug Liman movie, even though his earliest work I glommed onto, 1999's Go, ranks among my all-time faves, since he hasn't made anything as good since. But I'm gonna give him another chance with this next project because it stars Ewan McGregor and Ewan is always worth a chance. It's a biopic of adventurer George Mallory, who tried to climb Mount Everest back in the 1920s, and it will co-star Mark Strong and Outlander hunk Sam Heughan. Oh and it'll be called Everest, just like the Jake Gyllenhaal movie from a couple of years back, but I have a feeling that if Ewan has a nude scene in his Everest movie he'll let them leave it in, unlike Jake, so Ewan wins.

--- Step Up -- Another addition to the incredibly stacked cast of that true-crime adaptation The Staircase, which already had Juliette Binoche, Colin Firth, and Toni Collette -- ex-twink Dane DeHaan will now also be sleazing around the joint. I was going to make a joke about how he could play The Owl but I don't know if any of you will get that joke. Anyway I apparently missed the news that the series will also co-star Parker freaking Posey too! Everyone, literally everyone, will be there. get me to this set!

--- What's Good For The Gigolo -- An update on a project we've been keeping tabs on: the series re-do of American Gigolo starring Jon Bernthal got picked up by Showtime, a ten-episode order. It's actually technically a sequel to the movie starring Richard Gere; Bernthal's playing the same character, just years later after he's gotten out of jail. See all of MNPP's previous coverage on this series here, but pay special attention to this post. That's the winner.

--- Til Death Do -- Kristen Wiig is going to star in an adaptation of the upcoming book called The Husbands, which "follows an overworked mother who, while house-hunting in a nice suburban neighborhood, meets a group of high-powered women with enviably supportive husbands. When she agrees to take on a legal case involving the untimely death of one resident’s husband, she risks exposing not only the secrets at the heart of her own marriage, but the true secret to having it all, one worth killing for." I can't for the life of me tell the tone from that description; it could be dead serious or it could be Desperate Housewives. Even a gender-flipped Stepford Wives maybe?

--- Channing Sandwich -- Speaking of movie descriptions that I can't get a handle on the tone for, Zoe Kravitz has gone and written herself a star vehicle called Pussy Island (indeed) that will have her heading to the orgy-centric tropical getaway of a tech-billionaire (to be played by Channing Tatum, somehow); while there things go from sexy to dangerous, or something. I don't know. Just throw me in a Channing Tatum Orgy and I'll figure it out as I go.

--- And Finally since I began this post with a crazy stacked cast I'll finish with the same - Apple is producing a psychological-thriller series called Surface from the creator of the High Fidelity series, and it will star several MNPP fave babes including Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Stephan James, Ari Graynor, François Arnaud, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Marianne Jean Baptiste. Good grief -- Get me to that set! To all of the sets! I gotta get the fuck outta my house! Ahem. Surface is described as "an elevated thriller about a woman’s quest to rebuild her life after a suicide attempt, and her struggle to remember – and understand – everything that led up to the moment when she jumped." Gugu is the lead. (And hopefully Oliver & Francois are sharing a trailer.)

Friday, November 06, 2020

Brideshead Revisited Revisited

Luca Guadagnino is adding yet another project onto his great big project pile! Not sure where he will fit this in in between his Scarface re-do and his Lord of the Flies re-do and his movie about bisexual pimp Scotty Bowers (and those are just the first three that popped to mind -- there are definitely more), but today he's announced he is doing a BBC miniseries adaptation of queer classic Brideshead Revisited, the 1945 novel by author Evelyn Waugh that's already been adapted a few times, most recently in 2008 starring Matthew Goode and Ben Whishaw...

That photo isn't actually from that adaptation, but from its press, but I do love that photo. Anyway as that photo up top clues you into the rumor is that Andrew Garfield will be Luca's leading man. Deadline makes it clear no one's actually been cast yet. That said they have other names in their rumor-mongering, including Ralph Fiennes (who Luca worked with on A Bigger Splash), Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (I love that our Carol lovers have become our Bogey & Bacall, our Hepburn & Tracy, working together over and over), and then presumably in the Ben Whishaw role they're naming Gorgeous Joe Alwyn!

Good lord, what a cast this would be! Now here is where I admit I have never read Brideshead Revisited nor have I seen any of its adaptations. I think I admitted that when I posted about Ben Whishaw's birthday a couple of weeks ago, but just in case you missed judging me then, feel free now. So should I have myself a little marathon and watch the one with Jeremy Irons too?

Monday, August 03, 2020

Bradley's Been a Bad Boy

I was a big Bradley Cooper fan for a very long time -- I was both an Alias nerd and a Wet Hot American Summer devotee, after all -- and then, and then, A Star is Born happened. A truly bad movie that was so inexplicably enjoyed by so many smart (and not so smart) people that I felt like I'd fully lost my mind that Oscar season. Seriously. That movie is bad. And while Bradley's performance isn't by any stretch of the imagination the film's biggest problem -- that would be Lady Gaga's absolutely abysmal work and the film's wretched script -- it is, in the immortal words of Pete Campbell, Not Great Bob. He sells a lot of the emotional heft of the flick -- whatever little heft it does have, actually -- but that booming baritone croaking thing he is doing with his voice is so over the top cheesy and distracting. And then he proved himself an unbearable humorless schmuck all Oscar Season long, and my point is he did a real damn good job of whittling away most of my good Bradley Cooper feelings over the course of a few months. Not Good, Brad!

Anyway I'm going to have to try to get over it -- and judging by how annoyed I am still getting thinking about that entire debacle here in August of 2020 I have some work to do! -- because the future projects he's lined up as an actor are going to demand my attention, and hopefully, my enthuasiasms. Of course there's Guillermo Del Toro's remake of the Carny Noir Nightmare Alley, which has him tackling Tyrone Power's role opposite Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara and Toni Collette, and which began filming in Buffalo way back before the pandemic -- not sure where that stands now; if they finished filming before shutdown, I mean.

And now today it's been revealed that he is going to be in Paul Thomas Anderson's next movie. I told you about it last November -- it's based on PTA's own childhood growing up in the Valley in the 1970s and it's actually supposed to be a good and proper ensemble piece a la Boogie Nights or Magnolia, aka the sorts of movies he started out making, as opposed to the One (or Two) Man Armies he's been fixated on post-There Will Be Blood. (Although just so we're clear, from my perspective Paul Thomas Anderson has never made a single bad movie, period.) Anyway that lessens the weight on Bradley Cooper's shoulders, thankfully -- if this is an ensemble film my feelings won't rest entirely on his performance. If he went and ruined PTA's perfect record, hooooo boy.

Monday, September 02, 2019

Nicky To Tide You Over

If you want to look at pictures of fabulous celebrities looking fabulous right now, and given the state of the world who doesn't need some distraction, I suggest you head over to photographer Greg Williams' Instagram feed where he's capturing all of the gorgeous folks in Venice for the film fest -- he does this every year and every year we get goodies, like this shot of Nicholas Hoult in a swimming pool. There's also some good Brad Pitt and Jack O'Connell and Jude Law and Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara and on and on to be had, so get thee on that. Anyway as an aside to that sorry I just fell off the face of the planet last Thursday -- my day ended early and I just sorta collapsed after that. But we'll be back up and posting proper-like come tomorrow morning. Consider this just a taste, a refreshed flavor experience, until then...

Monday, August 12, 2019

Nightmare Circus Folks

I double-checked to make sure I never posted these terrifying pasty goblin photos of Bradley Cooper in W Magazine last year and sure enough I was sane, and didn't -- probably both because I hated with the heat of a million suns the movie he was promoting at the time (that'd be his A Star is Born remake), and also that he looks like somebody wanted to make a sexy stage version of Powder. A lot of nos! But here we are today posting them, against better instincts of yore, because there's Bradley Cooper news that I have to talk about, and the dude hasn't been doing photo-shoots much lately -- this is what we've got.

So the news that's brought this horror back into our lives is that it looks like Brad's set to play the Tyrone Power role in Guillermo Del Toro's forthcoming re-do of the terrific 1947 swarthy-noir Nightmare Alley. (We previously posted about this project here.) You'll hear no comment on Cooper filling in for Tyrone "Closet Case" Power from me! Besides, you know, that there "no comment" comment. The story's mainly set at the seediest of carnivals, where Cooper's character is a phony mind-reader who gets in way over his head with a bad dame.

The rest of the cast that Del Toro's gathered up though, well, it's literally quite insane. This movie is also going to star Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (who are hopefully just playing alternate timeline carny versions of Carol & Therese), Toni Collette, Richard Jenkins, Willem Dafoe, Ron Perlman and Michael Shannon. I mean can you even imagine? Anyway Del Toro says he plans on sticking closer to William Lindsay Gresham's original book, which I've never read but he says it's much darker -- the Tyrone film is pretty dark from what I recall, but lord knows there's stuff you can get away with now you couldn't get away with in 1947; GDT promises a "big R, like double R" rating. And if Michael Shannon bites the head off a live chicken it'll all -- all of life -- been worth it.
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

... you can learn from:

The One I Love (2014)

Ethan: Well, I'm not an aardvark.
Fake Ethan: And I am not a gorilla.

Have you guys seen this movie? I thought it was lovely when I saw it back in 2014 (here's my review) thanks to the (expected, but appreciated) fine work from Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass, and for such a small low-key film it's had a surprising lot of sticking power in my brain; I still find myself thinking about it fairly often at random moments.

Which signals good things for two projects I'm looking forward to soon that are both being shepherded to the screen by its director Charlie McDowell, who also happens to be celebrating his 36th birthday this very day. McDowell is directing Gilded Rage, the movie about that NYC trust-fund douche who murdered his father (produced by Jake Gyllenhaal and starring Bill Skarsgard), and he's directed the pilot for Kirsten Dunst's forthcoming TV series On Becoming a God in Central Florida, which looks super duper.

Things I just right this minute learned about Charlie via his IMDb page: he is the son of the legendary actors Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen! And Charlie was in a long-term relationship with Rooney Mara until last year; now he is with Emilia Clarke I think? I suppose if I paid attention to tabloid things I would know these sorts of things. I didn't even know he was Malcolm's son but now that I do I can totally see the resemblance...

Thursday, February 14, 2019

5 Off My Head: The Looks of Love

I always walk into Valentine's Day with cynicism -- Corporately Monetized Pseudo Romance, Blurgh! -- but then slowly, as I see people talking their favorite Romantic Movies all day long, my black hearts melts off its stinky exterior and the sappy softy beneath gets exposed. This happens every year and every year I am unprepared for it. Anyway after posting about Sorry Angel this morning and Call Me By Your Name a wee little later my heart-melt happened real fast today -- so fast I've gone and prepared a list for us by lunch-time! Here are five of my favorite "Looks of Love" in movies from the past 15 years -- romantic glances that just make my heart sing looking upon them.

Jack & Ennis, Brokeback Mountain

"You know it could be like this...
just like this always."

Therese & Carol, Carol

"My angel. Flung out of space."

Elio & Oliver, Call Me By Your Name

"Because I wanted you to know.
Because I wanted you to know.
Because I wanted you to know."

Frances & Sophie, Frances Ha

"It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and shining... and you look across the room and catch each other's eyes... but - but not because you're possessive, or it's precisely sexual... but because... that is your person in this life. And it's funny and sad, but only because this life will end, and it's this secret world that exists right there in public, unnoticed, that no one else knows about. It's sort of like how they say that other dimensions exist all around us, but we don't have the ability to perceive them. That's - That's what I want out of a relationship. Or just life, I guess."

Kevin & Chiron, Moonlight

"You the only man that's ever touched me.
You're the only one."

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Give me some of your faves

from any movies, any time, in the comments!

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Utopia Is Finally Coming For Us All

Oh we're getting all kinds of exciting news today -- America Honey actress Sasha Lane has been cast as the lead in Amazon's remake of the UK series Utopia, which news-to-me is apparently rolling forward. The last I'd heard on this (I was a huge massive fan of the original series) was four years ago when David Fincher was going to make it with his beloved Rooney Mara -- that clearly never materialized. There was a rumor that Fincher buried the UK version on this side of the pond, keeping it from streaming services so US audiences wouldn't be able to be spoiled.

It's really very much worth seeking out though. The Variety article gives some plot details, if you need them. And the original is actually on Amazon UK, I see. It's find-able. Find it! Anyway now Gillian Flynn, writer of Fincher's Gone Girl (not to mention Widows and Sharp Objects), is on the case -- apparently I missed the announcement back in April when Amazon ordered nine episodes. No other actors have been announced yet but that'll surely be coming so stay tuned.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

10 Off My Head: Siri Says 2011

It's been a couple of weeks since the last time the little lady inside of our telephone whispered sweet nothings into our ear and gave us the chance to do a new entry in our "Siri Says" series but lo behold today she's back, and she said the number "11" and so lo behold we're looking to The Movies of 2011 today. It's only been seven years since we celebrated and dissected that twelve months of cinema with our Golden Trousers, you can read through all of those at this link - or head straight to my Top Ten right here - but things have shifted around some so let's update where we stand as of 2018.

The problem with some of these are that I just haven't seen them in seven years. But doesn't that say something, that I haven't felt the need to revisit some, while others I've revisited several times since? Like I'm sure if I re-watched Martha Marcy May Marlene or Take Shelter (both movies that were in my original top ten) today I'd remember what I loved about them but right this minute they're foggy, my recollections. So they've dropped off. Anyway that's all we're doing. Shaking out my wobbly brain at this exact moment...

My 10 Favorite Movies of 2011

Certified Copy

(dir. Abbas Kiarostami)

-- released on 2011 --

Margaret

(dir. Kenneth Lonergan)

-- released on September 30th 2011 --

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

(dir. David Fincher)

-- released on December 21st 2011 --

Drive

(dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)

-- released on September 16th 2011 --

Beginners

(dir. Mike Mills)

-- released on June 3rd 2011 --

The Future

(dir. Miranda July)

-- released on July 29th 2011 --

You're Next

(dir. Adam Wingard)

-- released on August 23rd 2011 --

Melancholia

(dir. Lars von Trier)

-- released on October 3rd 2011 --

A Separation

(dir. Asghar Farhadi)

-- released on October 1st 2011 --

Young Adult

(dir. Jason Reitman)

-- released on December 13th 2011 --

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Runners-up: Bridesmaids (dir. Paul Feig), Hanna (dir. Joe Wright), 13 Assassins (dir. Takashi Miike), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (dir. Tomas Alfredson), Weekend (dir. Andrew Haigh)...

... Poetry (dir. Chang-dong Lee), Hugo (dir. Scorsese), Shame (dir. McQueen), I Saw the Devil (dir. Kim Jee-Woon), Kill List (dir. Wheatley), Jane Eyre (dir. Fukunaga), We Need To Talk About Kevin (dir. Ramsey), The Skin I Live In (dir. Almodovar), Haywire (dir. Soderbergh), Final Destination 5 (dir. Steven Quale)