Ebert's Best Film Lists1967 - gift
It changed into no longer a amazing yr for the movies. The yr's nice movies absorbed us with their tales and narratives, in preference to electrifying us with their stylistic invention as "Being John Malkovich," "Magnolia" and "Three Kings" did closing 12 months. The simplest title in my pinnacle ten with that kind of ambitious invention become "Requiem for a Dream," despite the fact that "Traffic" did a skillful process of juggling parallel tales and "George Washington" changed into a triumph of style in a more muted key. And but, as testimonies, what pride they gave! "I almost hugged myself" at some stage in "Almost Famous," I wrote, and a chum informed me he turned into looking forward to seeing it again even earlier than it changed into over. "Wonder Boys" changed into the type of individual have a look at that evokes some other person's life so observantly we recognise our manner around in it--and so, in a comedy, became "High Fidelity." Two of the 12 months's fine movies, "You Can Count on Me" and "George Washington," evoked the emotions of the characters rather than just marching them past the stations of the plot; they failed to force closure on testimonies that via their nature couldn't be closed. Special effects had been valuable to the energy of "The Cell" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"--but how extraordinary to analyze the treetop and rooftop scenes in "Tiger" had been (ital) no longer (unital) achieved with computers however with humans suspended from lifelines! Effects also helped evoke the drug-addicted worlds in "Requiem for a Dream," with its subjective closeups of the way it feels while the dose hits. And in "Pollock," Ed Harris discovered to color (or at the least appear to be he may want to paint) like Jackson Pollack, in a film suggesting it become less complicated to color Pollack's art work than live his life.
Huckleberry Finn as 15-yr-antique rock critic, in one of the excellent coming-of-age films ever made. Writer-director Cameron Crowe primarily based the movie on his own reports, while he became 15, convinced a Rolling Stone editor he became an adult, and changed into assigned to accompany the Allman Brothers on a road journey.
In the movie, Patrick Fugit is perfectly forged as the younger, vivid, earnest kid who talks himself into a mag assignment and is going on the road with a band named Stillwater. One overall performance after every other is done with uncanny accuracy: Billy Crudup because the rock-god lead guitarist, now not as fearsome as he looks; Kate Hudson because the groupie Penny Lane, who adores the Crudup person however takes sympathy on the kid; Frances McDormand because the hero's mother, trusting him on this first step into adulthood but laying down the regulation approximately capsules and lecturing Crudup over the cellphone in a classic scene; and Jason Lee, as the lead singer, who desires better billing at the T-shirts.
Another movie approximately a creator--this one a 50ish university professor played with the aid of Michael Douglas, who wrote one very good novel and has been working on a 2nd for lots too lengthy. We comply with him through a winter weekend on a chilly campus in Pittsburgh, as his life comes crashing down. He liquids too much, is stoned on pot, wanders forlornly in a shabby bathrobe, is facing the cease of his affair with the chancellor (Frances McDormand), is hiding from his editor (Robert Downey Jr) who has been promised the long-behind schedule manuscript, and deals uncertainly with two of his great students. "Wonder Boys" is the primary film by way of Curtis Hanson in view that "L.A. Confidential." It's as certain-footed. but extra gentle approximately its characters, extra sympathetic to the manner their desires elude them. At its center is Michael Douglas' excellent overall performance.
3. "You Can Count on Me"
Laura Linney plays Sammy, a unmarried mom, in a film packed with Oscar-caliber performances. She has an eight-12 months-vintage son, is a financial institution loan officer, is doing ok financially, is relationship a man who would not excite her, and hates her new boss. Then her brother Terry (Mark Ruffalo) indicates up on the town. He's a charmer who drives her nuts because she loves him however can't consider him.
"You Can Count on Me," a film of awesome soft truth, begins as they meet once more after one in all Terry's lengthy, unexplained silences. The film, written and directed via Ken Lonergan, avoid soppy payoffs and looks at those human beings with an affectionate however degree gaze; one of the joys of the film is the manner it avoids guidance the plot into neat resolutions, but shows its characters coping with life in all its baffling contradictions.
Steven Soderbergh's film has the courage and ambition to survey the drug trouble in America in all of its irritating facets. Interlocking tales involve the chain of sale and use: Two sincere Tijuana law enforcement officials, a Mexican navy widespread, a center-guy importer, a rich and decent American businessman who is secretly a drug lord, undercover San Diego drug retailers, an Ohio decide who is appointed the countries new drug czar, and his daughter, who will become addicted to cocaine. Each story stands on its personal, and it is sudden, thinking about how plenty floor the story covers, how strongly the characters emerge--particularly Benicio Del Toro as a Mexican cop and Michael Douglas as a determine confronted with pills in his family. The movie sees dependancy as a public fitness hassle, now not against the law, and many target market contributors may be led to the conclusion that the state's drug laws characteristic by and large as a fee-help system for the drug industry.
The maximum stylistically entrancing of the year's films drifts through summer time days that seem aimless until a terrifying occasion interrupts the calm. The movie takes location in a rusty industrial cityscape of abandoned factories and railyards, in which the heroes, children across the age of 12, play and kill time, and engage in desultory conversations. We meet a number of their family participants, and while an accident occurs we see the way it becomes a dread mystery. The power of the movie isn't always within the plot but in the temper, which has an uncanny resonance with "Days of Heaven," despite the fact that the 2 movies are in any other case pretty distinctive. It permits us to sign up for the rhythm, slowness and warmth of summer season days, and knows how conversations can dangle hauntingly inside the air.
A virtuoso thriller that combines psychology with psychic abilities, a serial killer with a police procedural, and stark landscapes and sterile laboratories with an astonishingly imagined mindscape. Jennifer Lopez stars, as a social worker who's concerned in a task to share the thoughts of a little boy locked in a coma -- she hopes to coax him out -- while the FBI enlists her in an pressing try to input the mind of a serial killer and find out the place of his trendy sufferer before a fatal closing date. Tarsem, the director, is a visual virtuoso who juggles his storylines effects; it's superb, the way he blends such a lot of notes, patterns and genres right into a movie so unique.
The movies don't regularly attention at the ordinary lives of younger operating humans, but here is a comedy with charm and heart about the owner of a Chicago used vinyl shop (John Cusack), his two opinionated personnel, and the women in (and in the main out) of his lifestyles. Directed by Stephen Frears, the movie is a comedy of mindset: It studies the techniques used by the characters to combine relative poverty with the conviction of being one of the selected. Cusack, always a best actor, surpasses himself here as a person who morosely compiles lists of ex-girlfriends and with a bit of luck sallies forth to make the equal errors again.
A triumph for Ed Harris, who in his directing debut has made one of the exceptional biopics approximately an artist; that is a film that includes knowledge approximately the artwork global and the way it juggles greed and concept even as looking to accommodate the not possible personalities of many artists. Harris stars in a powerful, nuanced performance as Jackson Pollock, an important abstract expressionist who located expert success and private distress. Marcia Gay Hardin co-stars as his painter spouse, Lee Krasner, who is aware of what she's stepping into whilst she courts the alcoholic, depressive painter, and stands beside him so long as she can take it.
nine. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
Ang Lee grew up on Taiwan analyzing martial arts novels, and the snap shots in his memory had been a power in this film, he says. Poetic and extra considerate than most works inside the style, it also incorporates some of the most exhilarating action sequences ever filmed. Viewing a rooftop chase and a coronary heart-stopping combat by way of two characters clinging to swinging treetops, I assumed it was computer animation of a few type, and became astonished when Lee instructed me the ones were real actors up there, placing from cranes on invisible wires. For as soon as the action wasn't the point in the martial arts movie: It was the canvas for a tale of fable and obsession, superbly advised.
10. "Requiem for a Dream"
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