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Happy new year! Hope you spent a merry Kwanzaa eggnogging yourself into oblivion. 2010 marks Screen Machine’s second year in operation and what better way for a website to celebrate such an occasion than with a list! Here are the Top 20 Films of 2009 as chosen by the Screen Machine staff. Chosen from films that were released in Melbourne cinemas in 2009 or were given a festival screening here, we’ve tried to create a list that is more intriguing…
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Jim Jarmusch’s next film appears to be more in the Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai vein than his recent conversation driven films, Broken Flowers and Coffee and Cigarettes. Once again, the film centres on a professional criminal, alienated from society much like the characters of a film by Jean-Pierre Melville, a director who Jarmusch obviously regards highly without merely imitating his style.
