2011年10月10日星期一

Howard hooks them and lets us watch them wiggle

That statement, uttered by disgraced former President Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) to Rosetta Stone TV interviewer David Frost (Michael Sheen) in 1977, should quiet fears that the film version of Peter Morgans play is musty history. Even better, director Ron Howard makes lively, provocative business of how public figures test their hubris before a camera. Howard hooks them and lets us watch them wiggle. All the actors excel, but Langella is transcendent, a lion roaring against a lonely winter.5. WALL-E Directed by Andrew Stanton: Given my jones for audacity and darkness in the years best movies, whats this G-rated animated thing from Pixar doing in the top five? Ill tell you. The story of tiny robot WALL-E, scooting around a planet we humans have trashed, speaks volumes. The films chastening sadness cuts deep. And Ill take the romance between WALL-E and iPod lookalike EVE iver the vampire lust Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 in Twilight. Director Andrew Stanton and his crew have created a visionary masterpiece.6. Revolutionary Road Directed by Sam Mendes: Not since Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has a portrait of a marriage been this scalding and unforgiving. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are brilliant under the canny, caring direction of Sam Mendes.7. The Visitor Directed by Tom McCarthy: The screwed-up politics of illegal immigration are potently skewered by writer-director Tom McCarthy and by a career performance from Richard Jenkins as a shy, 60-ish college prof finding Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 a life outside himself.8. Doubt Directed by John Patrick Shanley: A nun (Meryl Streep) and a priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) battle over a charge of pedophilia. But the war raging in John Patrick Shanleys stinging film of his play is about unreasonable certainty. Hows that for timely?9. Rachel Getting Married Directed by Jonathan Demme:Director Jonathan Demme, screenwriter Jenny Lumet and a sensational Anne Hathaway, as an emotional time bomb home from rehab for her sisters wedding, dig deep into the joy and pain of being part of a family.10. Man on Wire Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 Directed by James Marsh: In 1974, when Harvey Milk was walking his own tightrope, daredevil Frenchman Philippe Petit defied law and gravity to wire-walk from one World Trade Center tower to another.

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