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screensMarjorie BauMgarten12345678910Holy Motors I think Buñuel would have liked thismovie, and that’s good enough for me. It’s my personalwinner of the épater la bourgeoisie award for thenew millennium.Cloud Atlas It’s the only movie this year that brought atear to my eye, so swelled was I with its mad audacityand synchronicity.Beasts of the Southern Wild This idiosyncratic dazzlerleaves you to wonder what swamp it crawled out of andwho else is in there. The film’s blend of figment andauthenticity is just right.Lincoln It’s as if John Ford were directing Profiles inCourage – crafting cinema in the service of history.Nevertheless, the film is a stupendous congruence ofmagnificent direction, cinematography, performance –and timeliness.Argo Give me more movies like this,please: great story + wonderful ensemble+ gripping filmmaking + social relevance= terrific entertainment.Amour A French octogenarian couple demonstrate whatit means to love and honor in sickness and health –and, in the process, reveal an aspect of love little seenin the movies.Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal recognizedthe makings of a great story before knowing itsactual outcome, and then managed to redirect the dramato focus on the unsung analyst warriors.Polisse It’s another day onthe job for the officers inthis French child protectionunit, while the horrificgrind that affects each onedifferently is deftly observedby the filmmaker.This Must Be the Place Sean Penn’s transmogrifyingperformance aside, this film is a riveting portrait of rockstardom in middle age.Rust and BoneMarion Cotillard is thoroughlyamazing in thiscompelling love storybetween an unlikely pair.KiMBerLeY jonesPolisse This unshowy 2011 Cannes Jury Prize winnerabout a child protection unit in Paris never played inAustin, save a one-off AFS showing, but it’s just asimpactful on the small screen.The Master One man’s inner battle between nature vs.nurture, set against post-World War II America’s ownidentity crisis. Rigorous and terrifically rewarding.Zero Dark Thirty Do we go inknowing the ending? Sure, butthat doesn’t make this technicallycomplex and morallycomplicated drama about thehunt for bin Laden any lesssuspenseful, or stressful.Holy Motors Leos Carax’s return to film is so crackedoutyou hardly notice you’ve started crying.Celeste & Jesse Forever Turns the romantic comedyinside out and pokes its guts for pained laughs. Noother film this year so perfectly articulated my own anxieties,which was awful and wonderful all at once.Moonrise Kingdom Dontchawish your first love camescored to a Françoise Hardypop chanson, too?Oslo, August 31st Joachim Trier’s second film is a subtleand stunning examination of the insurmountable separatenessthat attends acute depression. And what ahell of a hollowing-out it is to behold.Les Misérables Animperfect production, tobe sure, but if you’re soinclined – and, gaw yes,this former theatre geeksurely was – its go-forbrokenessis divine.Jiro Dreams of Sushi ... and whata stirring reverie it is, as detailed inDavid Gelb’s elegant documentaryabout an 85-year-old sushi master andhis family legacy.Cloud Atlas I’m not convinced it isn’tquasi-spiritual hoo-ha, but still, thisunruly epic moved me with its purity ofintention and heart-on-sleeve sentiment.Holy MotorsCeleste & Jesse ForeverCloud AtlasBeasts of theSouthern Wild+Are proud to bring you Austin’s first annualJanuary 9 -12, 2013Tickets online at indiechefsweek.com38 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JANUARY 4, 2013 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m
LincolnMarjorie BauMgartenKiMBerLeY jonesNEARMISSESLife of Pi, Django Unchained,Bernie, Looper, The GreyLooper, Indie Game: The Movie,The Loneliest Planet,2 Days in New York, Pitch PerfectMOSTOVERRATEDSilver Linings Playbook,The Master, Moonrise KingdomLincoln, 21 Jump Street,The AvengersMOSTUNDERRATEDCloud Atlas, This Must Bethe Place, Killer JoeParaNorman, Bachelorette, 2 Days in New YorkThe MasterACTINGKUDOS(male)Denis Lavant (HolyMotors), Daniel Day-Lewis(Lincoln), Sean Penn(This Must Be the Place)Joaquin Phoenix(The Master), Denis Lavant(Holy Motors), DanielDay-Lewis (Lincoln)ACTINGKUDOS(female)Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Marion Cotillard(Rust and Bone), Jennifer Lawrence (Silver LiningsPlaybook, The Hunger Games)Jennifer Lawrence (SilverLinings Playbook), NaomiWatts (The Impossible),Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)Silver LiningsPlaybookACTINGKUDOS(supporting male)Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln), MatthewMcConaughey (Magic Mike), SamuelL. Jackson (Django Unchained)Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained),Eddie Redmayne (Les Misérables),Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)ACTINGKUDOS(supporting female)Sally Field (Lincoln), Anne Hathaway(Les Misérables), Nicole Kidman(The Paperboy)Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook),Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables),Amy Adams (The Master)The ImpossibleBESTDIRECTORLeos Carax (Holy Motors),Steven Spielberg (Lincoln),Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski,and Lana Wachowski (Cloud Atlas)Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master),Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty),Maïwenn (Polisse)BESTSCREENPLAY(original)Zero Dark Thirty (Mark Boal),Amour (Michael Haneke),Looper (Rian Johnson)Looper (Rian Johnson), Celeste & Jesse Forever(Rashida Jones and Will McCormack), MoonriseKingdom (Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola)BESTSCREENPLAY(adapted)Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, AndyWachowski, and LanaWachowski), Argo (Chris Terrio), Lincoln (Tony Kushner)Cloud Atlas (Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski, andLana Wachowski), Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (OlParker), Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)WORSTFILMThe Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: Do Peter Jacksonand Fran Walsh have no one around who’ll say no tothem? This is a sad example of a film’s grasp farexceeding its reach.Was sodden sequel Wrath of the Titans the worst movieof the year? Probably not, but it was the only one Iwalked out on, eye-rollingly bored by its po-faced take onthe juicy sword-and-sandal genre.The Hobbit:An Unexpected JourneyWILD CARDWomen Loosed From the Shadows: Alma Reville, thedirector’s better half in Hitchcock; Maya, the unidentifiedCIA analyst in Zero Dark Thirty; and Margaret“Daisy” Suckley, FDR’s Hyde Park on Hudson honeyIt was a damn good year at the picture show, whereineven the failures were interesting. And stop piling onJohn Carter, y’all. It was sweet and weird and made by agifted, fallible human, not an assembly line.Veggie HeavenHEALTHYVEGETARIANCUISINEWITH ADELICIOUSORIENTALFLAVORWE SERVEBUBBLE TEA457-1013Mon-Fri 11-8:45pmSat-Sun 12-8:45pmParking AvailableFREEBUBBLE TEAwith the purchase of one t-shirt($5 plus tax) Exp 1/31/131914-A Guadalupe • veggieheavenaustin.coma u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JANUARY 4, 2013 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 39
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