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Marc Glassman's Best Films of 2007
Criteria: All films had to be released for one week in a Toronto cinema

Best Picture, English language International
  • I'm Not There
  • No Country for Old Men
  • Into the Wild
  • Atonement
  • A Mighty Heart

Best Performance, Male
  • Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
  • Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
  • Gordon Pinsent, Away from Her
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
  • Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best Performance, Female
  • Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
  • Ellen Page, Juno
  • Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd
  • Laura Dern, Inland Empire
  • Tang Wei, Lust, Caution

Best Supporting Performance, Male
  • Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
  • Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
  • Ulirich Muhe. The Lives of Others
  • Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men

Best Supporting Performance, Female
  • Vanessa Redgrave, Atonement
  • Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding
  • Marie Josee Croze, Diving Bell and Butterfly
  • Laura Harris, Severance

Best Director
  • Todd Haynes, I'm Not There
  • The Coen Brothers, No Country for Old Men
  • David Lynch, Inland Empire
  • Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell & Butterfly
  • David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises

Best Screenplay, adapted or original
  • Coen Brothers, No Country for Old Men
  • Diablo Cody, Juno
  • Beatrix Christian, Jindabyne
  • Christopher Hampton, Atonement
  • Andrew Currie, Robert Chomiak & Dennis Heaton, Fido

Best Canadian Film
  • Away from Her
  • Fido
  • Brand Upon the Brain!
  • Congorama
  • Missing Victor Pellerin

Best First Feature
  • Away from Her
  • Michael Clayton
  • Control
  • Missing Victor Pellerin
  • Red Road

Best Animated Feature
  • Paprika
  • Ratatouille
  • The Simpsons Movie
  • Bee Movie
  • Shrek the Third

Best Foreign-Language Film
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  • Offside
  • Black Book
  • 13 Tzameti
  • The Lives of Others

Best Documentary
  • My Kid Could Paint That
  • No End in Sight
  • Manufacturing Dissent
  • Sicko
  • In the Shadow of the Moon


- sally mckay 12-28-2007 7:17 pm [link] [3 comments]


Current links on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan.
CBC
BBC
Guardian UK
Al Jazeera English

[Abuse of very interesting but copyrighted material is to be found in our comments section]

- L.M. 12-27-2007 9:54 pm [link] [9 comments]



christmassign
Image courtesy of Kate Wilson

- L.M. 12-23-2007 1:11 am [link] [6 comments]


In these bleak midwinter moments...a seasonal greeting from greygoo.





- sally mckay 12-22-2007 5:00 am [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]


Two current installations in Toronto by Warren Quigley:

"Love Motel" at Fly Gallery, 1172 Queen St. W., Toronto until Jan. 08

warre_1

"Moveable Garden" at Harbourfront, Toronto until end of Feb. 08
(on lawn (snowfield) west of York Quay Centre)

Warren_2

- L.M. 12-21-2007 11:38 pm [link] [1 comment]



Eric Glavin's Top Ten List

#1 Mike Kelley Petting Zoo installation at Skulptur Projekte Münster:

kelley

#2 Geoffrey Farmer The Puppet Kit (Personality Workshop) at Le Biennale de Montréal:

farmer

#3 Snap Judgements at The National Gallery, Ottawa.

#4 Fiona Banner: The Bastard Word at The Power Plant, Toronto:

banner

#5 Carlo Cesta International House of Sunshine at Diaz:

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#6 Jon Sasaki : Wishing For Three More Wishes at Gallery TPW. Toronto:

sasaki

#7 Hito Steyerl's film Lovely Andrea at Documenta, Kassel:

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Hito_3

#8 Nestor Krüger at Goodwater, Toronto:

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#9 Film Fort at Art Gallery of Mississauga.

#10 BGL at Diaz:

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- L.M. 12-20-2007 8:15 pm [link] [1 ref] [2 comments]