Comments on: Top 20 Films of 2009

By: Screen Machine

Screen Machine — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:51:31 +0000

[...] out ACMI’s Focus on Kelly Reichardt, a retrospective of the director’s earlier works such as Wendy and Lucy (2008) starring Michelle Williams; Old Joy (2006) starring Will Oldham a.k.a. Bonnie ‘Prince’ [...]

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Screen Machine — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:41:22 +0000

[...] Cutoff is the latest film from Kelly Reichardt, the distinctive American director of Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy. The first period piece for Reichardt, this film follows a group of American settlers and their [...]

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Screen Machine — Tue, 03 May 2011 05:18:50 +0000

[...] Adventureland, his second effort as writer-director after 1996’s The Daytrippers. (See the short piece Conall Cash wrote up for Adventureland’s entry in our end-of-year poll for 2009.) His latest film [...]

By: Screen Machine

Screen Machine — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:02:41 +0000

[...] big Jesse Eisenberg fans (but then who isn’t?). It perhaps shows other continuities from our 2009 list, indicating some of the approaches and prejudices we have as film critics and spectators. We hope [...]

By: Screen Machine

Screen Machine — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:51:25 +0000

[...] landscape. Samson and Delilah is a film whose 'eventness' may have ended for Australians in 2009, the so-called 'banner year' for Australian cinema of which Samson and Delilah was the poster [...]

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Screen Machine — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:21:56 +0000

[...] is showing at the film festival right now. We listed Still Walking among our top films of last year here. Matinee screenings on Saturday, Sunday and [...]

By: Screen Machine

Screen Machine — Wed, 26 May 2010 05:42:46 +0000

[...] Hurt Locker at the Astor. Kathryn Bigelow’s war film about addiction was one of our favourites of 2009. Brad reviewed it [...]

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Screen Machine » The “to do” list: Week starting 28/1/10: — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:49:13 +0000

[...] Thornton’s Samson and Delilah (listed on our Top 20 of 2009) at the [...]

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Screen Machine » The “to do” list: Week starting 21/1/10: — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:31:16 +0000

[...] foul-mouthed political comedy In The Loop opens. (The film made Screen Machine’s Best of 2009 [...]

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Screen Machine » The “to do” list: week starting 14/1/10: — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:06:12 +0000

[...] Machine 2009 list-maker (!) A Serious Man from the Coen Brothers at Astor. (We wrote about it here.) Le [...]