Cannes Film Festival 2013

Oscarweb Round-up: Ebert crowns 'A Separation'

Also: The year in debut directors and Stapleton on Corman

<p><span class="rg_ctlv">Leila Hatami in "A Separation"<br />
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Leila Hatami in "A Separation"

Credit: Sony Pictures Classics

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Guy recently called attention to top 10 season in a recent post. I tend to block all of that out until I finish my own year in review, and so now that I've done that (closing things down with the annual superlatives post later this morning), I've enjoyed perusing what other journalists and critics are chalking up as the year's best. Roger Ebert's list is always a good barometer of a certain demographic, I think, and its was nice to see that he recently tapped Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation" as the year's best film. Not only that, but he made room for my #1, Kenneth Lonergan's "Margaret," a little further down the list. I'm really hoping more and more critics are willing to go to bat for that one, but we'll see. [Chicago Sun-Times]

Mark Olsen on the year in debut directors. [Los Angeles Times]

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    sharkman

    Mark Olsen fails to mention Attack the Block or Submarine, both brilliant debuts. :(

    December 16, 2011 at 12:58PM EST Reply to Comment
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    JLPatt

    You may want to take a look at Jim Emerson's list as well as the MSN list for 2011's best films. "Margaret" was listed many times by various critics who contributed to the MSN poll.

    Here was Emerson's list, very interesting I think:

    1. "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives"
    2. "Meek's Cutoff"
    3. "Melancholia"
    4. "Certified Copy"
    5. "Margaret"
    6. "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
    7. "The Mill and the Cross"
    8. "Take Shelter"
    9. "A Dangerous Method"
    10. "Carnage"

    December 16, 2011 at 4:39PM EST Reply to Comment

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