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Heima (Sigur Ros: Heima)

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Along with War Photographer, it's my favorite documentary so far. The cinematography was flawless. The commentaries were coming from the bottom of their heart and showed a lot of emotions and kindness. I'm also a big fan of Sigur Rós and I hope to see them again in show. But seeing them in Iceland must be the best show you could ever attend.

Scarface

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug empire while succumbing to greed. what can i say Pacino gives an amazing performance that is both comic and tragic in this remake of the 1932 classic about corruption in America. Pacino's character wants the world and everything in it. That's what he gets. We are reminded to beware of what we wish for. on my list of Best movies i own ( look at all my list )

Caramel

a wonderful view on lebanese women written by a woman as well, who's also acting in her own movie. nadine labaki is really talented, i hope to see more films of her in the future. if you like movies that will make you feel light and warm after watching it, this one is for you. i was pleased!

Le Père Noël est une Ordure

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End

creo que esta muy pero muy buen m mucha accion esta muy buena me gusta

Once

Before I saw this, I was aware that alongside Knocked Up, this film has achieved the highest rate of good (mostly great) reviews of the year, thus, it is the Best Reviewed Movie of the Year (albeit it limited release). So, I had high expectations and could only live to be dissapointed...

All I knew of the film was that it was a modern musical set in Dublin, and that its singer played some Van Morrison and a score of original releases...

What I found was something much different. At a very low run time of one hour and twenty five minutes, it was surprising how slow its pacing was, accountable mostly to the complete lack of plot (nothing truly unravels between the time that our protagonist meets the girl, they find a band and they record. Such an invisible plot line however, is absolutely perfect. There is also no breaking out into song and dance, but slow and beautiful transitions into street performances, studio practices and in the bedroom lullabies that deliver like Shakesperian monologues.

Though repetitive in its last eight minutes, the music is absolutely fantastic and the relationship (not a Romantic one) is incredibly deep for such mysteriously underrealized characters.

A film lacking in plot, full character development and misaimed pacing would normally never pass the radar as well as this one has... but as its a film about music, and it certainly knows music, it's no wonder its charming dialogue, its powerful yet subtle performances and stunning musical numbers harmonize perfectly.

Once is not only one of the best films of the year in its own idiosyncratic manner, it's also the absolute best contribution to the slowly dying genre of the musical.

Note:
This entire decade has seen very few musicals, and even the ones that were released have been quite harmful to the reputation and quality of the genre (ex: Rent) despite the best intentions. So here, in no order, are my particular recommendations for "Musicals of The Decade 00":

Dancer in the Dark (Lars Von Trier, 2000)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell, 2001)

Once (John Carney, 2007)

The Singing Detective (Keith Gordon, 2003)

Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2003)

Also... "Across the Universe" which is to be released later this years looks promising... and I haven't seen "Dreamgirls" yet.

An Inconvenient Truth

very good

Hope Floats

And shit sinks.

Step Up

Fuck you, teenage dance movie! Fuck you and your ghetto to riches tap dancing mind fuck of a feature.