New York Times recently lead a survey Ask the filmmakers, actors and famous writers to name the best films of the century so far. From Pedro Almodóvar to “West Side Story” and “Snow White” Rachel Zegler, the Times asked dozens and dozens of famous people on their favorite feature films since 2000, then compiled their answers in a list of the 100 best (classified by the films have obtained the most votes). The survey was very similar to the surveys that Sight & Sound has once every decade, only limited to outings of the last 25 years and inviting a different team of filmmakers, writers and managers to participate. (Sight & Sound also invites criticism and essayists.)
When writing these lines, you can see many of the 10 best lists submitted by the participants, and, Boy Howdy, are some of the interesting choices. Alex Winter, the star of the films “Bill & Ted” and director of “Freaked”, “Zappa” and “The YouTube Effect”, listed the recent Romanian comedy “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” as one of the best of the century, while Almodóvar listed “Ida”, “Dogtooth” and Abbas Kiarostami ” “” Ten “” “” “” “ten” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “” “) “” “” “Ten” by Abbas Kiarostami “” Ten “” “To choose a few others at random, Julianne Moore has listed” Phantom Thread “and” The 40-Year Virgin “, while Karyn Kusama loved” Arrival “,” Mandy “,” under the skin “and” The Social Network “.
The Star horror of the Stephen King luminaire was also questioned, of course, and his choices were perhaps a little more common than most, with several strokes at the box office and darling at the Oscars among them. King appreciated the “Black Hawk Down” by Ridley Scott, “The Departed” by Ang Lee, “The Departed” by Martin Scorsese, The Coen Bros. ‘A-Punch of “O brother, where are you?” And “no country for old people” and “Oppenheimer” by Christopher Nolan. The only horror films on his list were “Train To Busan” and the New Zealand 2025 thriller “The Rule of Jenny Penn” (which presents one of the greatest performances of John Lithgow).
His list also included a film directed by – and with – Clint Eastwood. No, not “Space Cowboys”.
Stephen King likes a million dollars baby
The prolific production of the 21st century of Eastwood increased both in political force and tonal sweetness. His films tend to be very relaxed and emotionally disarming. Often, Eastwood will make films that sympathized from a right -wing point of view, having directed several characteristics of the honest and workers who are attacked and porked by a system of “great government”. Impressive, Eastwood has led 19 traits in the past 25 years, starting with “Space Cowboys” and continuing, more recently, “Juror # 2”. Some have been great legitimate films, while others were stinking. (Person Really I liked “J. Edgar” or “Jersey Boys”).
“Million Dollar Baby”, which made the list of King’s 10 best, was a prize ceremony darling when it was released in 2004, winning the Oscars for the best film, best director, best actress (Hilary Swank), and the best support actor (Morgan Freeman). It was also a massive success, earning 231.9 million dollars at the box office against a budget of $ 30 million. He tells the story of a budding boxer named Maggie (Swank) while looking for the supervision of a burned boxing coach Frankie (Eastwood). They recognize that on the career level, she is going up while he is going down. Anyway, he forms it so well that Maggie begins to eliminate his assorted opponents with a single punch. It was at this moment that the intrigue takes a dramatic turn, letting Frankie take care of Maggie in a way that none of them expected or did not plan. “Million Dollar Baby” also has an intensely tragic end, which will leave the public using a lot of fabrics at the exit.
It was a surprising choice for King, who, if he talked about the filmography of Eastwood, could easily have chosen a film like “Mystic River”, “Letters from Iwo Jima”, “below” or “Gran Torino” (some of the filmmaker’s best films). Instead, he chose a large -scale Hollywood melodrama, something that has the impression of having been able to go out in the 1930s (despite the occasional f bomb). King has not elucidated his choice and no tests accompany his list.
Of course, maybe the man behind “La Vie de Chuck”, “Stand by Me” and “The Shawshank Redemption” simply has a sentimental side.
