Sunday, January 4, 2009
Film Sunday Video: The Flight of the Red Balloon
Posted by Sharon on Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Our own Mark Asch called Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Red Balloon "the best film to grace our theaters this year" in his Top Ten (Plus Five) of 2008 list.
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how does Sally Hawkins win the best actress award (from NYFCC) over this? Just boggles the brain.
Also, I must say "United Red Army" was one hell of a movie, brought the practice of "self-criticism" back into fashion? Plus I don't know if you were at the Wakamatsu q n a session at Japan Society but that was a head trip in itself, and def one of the best NYC moments/ events of 2008. I hope Sundance channel picks it up.
Btw- when I saw Batman some people booed at the end, so yeah I guess it did raise that love/hate emotion for some people. My personal worst/overrated of the year goes to Iron Man.
Binoche was great, but I hope we can all have enough room in our heart for Hawkins too; I think, given that it's an English-language movie that was actually made and debuted this year -- and more specifically geared around her (breakout) role -- that the unspoken-but-unanimous critical decision to throw weight behind Hawkins makes sense.
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