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- October 7th, 2009
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Counting Down The Zeroes: Update
Some of you may have seen Sam Juliano's humbling piece at Wonders in the Dark and wondered whether it is indeed true that Counting Down The Zeroes is at an end.Well....it isn't. Thanks to some fine k…
- August 30th, 2009
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The Year 2001: Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann)
The final part to his 'red curtain' trilogy, following on from the international success of Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Romeo + Juliet (1996), Baz Luhrmann, not one to take subtle road when big, bold…
- August 29th, 2009
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- August 28th, 2009
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ibetolis has posted a new entry on: Film for the Soul
The Year 2004: Finding Neverland (Marc Forster)
Joseph Belanger of the brilliant Black Sheep Reviews takes on Marc Forster's follow up to the highly successful 'Monster's Ball' with the bio-pic, 'Finding Neverland', about English playwright James M…
- August 27th, 2009
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ibetolis has posted a new entry on: Film for the Soul
The Year 2004: Dodgeball : A True Underdog Story (Rawson Marshall Thurber)
Once again the Reel Whore of ''Reel Whore' joins Counting Down The Zeroes, having recently celebrated his two year blog anniversary with a gorgeous makeover, to take aim at one of the year's more outr…
- August 26th, 2009
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The Year 2001: Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch)
Ranked amongst his finest work, David Lynch's critically acclaimed neo-noir/mystery/psychological thriller/surrealist - whatever you want to label it, you would be hard pressed to find an equal in the…
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The Year 2004: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Stephen Hopkins)
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes back Joel (MovieMan0283) creator of the quite brilliant and eponymous The Dancing Image, which in the past month has just celebrated it's one year anniversary. For th…
- August 22nd, 2009
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The Year 2004: Closer (Mike Nichols)
Patrick Marber's acclaimed stage drama about the interactions of four people was given a reverent screen adaptation by Mike Nichols, a director and producer akin to adapting celebrated stage works, in…
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The Year 2004: Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro)
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes back J.D from the superb Radiator Heaven, and not only for yet another excellent submission but as team member, who will be on hand for the ever expanding project fro…
- August 21st, 2009
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The Year 2004: Love Song For Bobby Long (Shainee Gabel)
Andrew Kendall of Encore's World of Film & TV takes on 2004's 'underwhelming' Love Song for Bobby Long, based on the novel Off Magazine Street by Ronald Everett Capps, starring John Travolta as a…
- August 19th, 2009
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The Year 2001: The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson)
At once richly ironic, blackly comic and daubed in pathos, The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson's star-studded packed indie hit, charts the life and times of a once gifted trio of siblings, deserted by…
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The Year 2004: Sideways (Alexander Payne)
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes Pat, of the fabulous Doodad Kind of Town, back to the project with yet another brilliant submission, check out her blog for more of the same. This time round Pat tak…
- August 18th, 2009
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The Year 2004: Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
Rick Olson of the superb Coosa Creek Cinema is back at Counting Down The Zeroes with this great review of Bad Education, his second submission to the project on the films of Pedro Almodovar, the other…
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The Year 2001: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
There's no doubting the movie event of the year 2001, taking an extraordinary amount of time, talent and money to bring it to the screen, Peter Jackson's first chapter of the world renowned fantasy ep…
- August 17th, 2009
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The Year 2001: Waking Life (Richard Linklater)
Definitely one of 2001's most innovative films, Richard Linklater's Waking Life, used live flesh and blood actors, edited and completed the film as per the norm and then, and this is the seller, stuck…
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The Year 2004 - Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh)
Counting Down The Zeroes has the pleasure of welcoming Bob Turnbull of the wonderful Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind, his classy film blog that's currently taking in the sights at the 4th Toronto…
- August 16th, 2009
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The Year 2001: Artificial Intelligence: A.I (Steven Speilberg)
The infamous Kubrick/Speilberg hybrid, Artificial Intelligence, was initially greeted by something of a muted, almost disappointed, reception when released at the cinema in 2001, yet lately it's enjo…
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The Year 2004: SARS Wars (Taweewat Wantha)
Counting Down The Zeroes has the pleasure of welcoming back Peter Nellhaus of the superb Asian cinema centric blog Coffee, Coffee and More Coffee, who once again shines light on a film from a corner o…
- August 15th, 2009
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The Year 2001: Hedwig and the Angry Itch (John Cameron Mitchell)
Already with a huge cult following in tow, John Cameron Mitchell adapted his co-written off-Broadway hit, Hedwig and the Angry Itch, about a fictional rock & roll band, fronted by a transgendered…
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The Year 2004: Spider-Man 2 (Sam Raimi)
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes the Film Dr, of the marvellous The Film Doctor, to the year 2004, where he takes on the highly successful sequel to the equally lucrative movie rebranding of the su…
- August 14th, 2009
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The Year 2001: Lantana (Ray Lawrence)
A huge hit in it's home country, winning 7 AFI Awards, and a slow-burning international arthouse hit, Ray Lawrence's adaptation of Andrew Bovell's play 'Speaking in Tongues', intertwining the fate of…
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The Year 2004: Dawn of the Dead (Zack Snyder)
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes back Jason Soto of the Invasion of the B Movies, the master of the second rate, the king of the macabre, the wacky and the down right bizarre, who takes on Zack Snyde…
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The Year 2001: Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the second Indian film ever to be given the accolade, Mira Nair's family drama centred around a very chaotic Indian wedding, charmed audiences an…
- August 13th, 2009
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The Year 2001: Heist (David Mamet)
Full of Mamet's patented dialogue (check out this post for some excellent examples), narration devices and swift, complicated plots, Heist, seen as one of the director/playwright's lesser films, still…
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The Year 2004: Downfall (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
Counting Down The Zeroes welcomes Allan Fish, co-creator and scribe of the highly influential and inspirational film blog Wonders in the Dark, where you can catch Allan's top 50 countdown of his favou…
- August 12th, 2009
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The Year 2004: Collateral (Michael Mann)
Counting Down The Zeroes has the pleasure of welcoming another new face to the project in the guise of Yeali, who hails from the superb blog, My First Farce, an account of her attempt at writing a scr…
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The Year 2001: In The Bedroom (Todd Field)
Dedicated to the short-story writer, Andre Dubus, his short story, Killings, providing the source material for which the screenplay is based, In The Bedroom was noted photographer Todd Field's directo…
- August 9th, 2009
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The Year 2004: The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson)
This post was submitted by Stephanie Lundahl of the brilliant The Flick ChickThe Passion of the Christ is a difficult movie to approach, seeing as it comes with so much baggage. Hailed in some circles…
- August 8th, 2009
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The Year 2001: Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)
In 2001 a film came out that blew everyone away with it's mix of surrealism and downright weirdness; a sort sci-fi homage to the teen movies of the 80's, which made for sheer cult cinema criteria; a 6…
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The Year 2001: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (Zacharias Kunuk)
New to Counting Down The Zeroes is Norma Desmond (you have to love the name) of the exquisite blog The Flick Chick; one of those reviewers in the blogsphere who continues to amaze me, not only with he…
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The Year 2004: The Aviator (Martin Scorsese)
This post, subtitled The Aviator: A Tribute to the Golden Age of Cinema, was submitted by Andrew Kendall of the great Encore's World of Film & TVMartin Scorsese holds a strange place in Oscar and…
- August 7th, 2009
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The Year 2004: The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass)
This post was submitted by Tom Hyland of the superb Cinema DirectivesThe Bourne Supremacy takes us on a journey quite similar to that of its predecessor, The Bourne Identity of two years earlier; a fa…
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The Year 2001: Brotherhood of the Wolf (Christophe Gans)
Loosely based on a real-life series of killings dating back to 18th Century France, as well as integrating the infamous legend of the 'Beast of Gevaudan', Brotherhood of the Wolf takes on a mix of gen…
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The Year 2001: Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott)
Based on Mark Bowden's account, and subsequent book, of the UN forces attempt to capture a Somali warlord (the battle of Mogadishu), resulting in 'the most intensive close combat Americans had engaged…
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The Year 2004: Undertow (David Gordon Green)
This post was submitted by Kevin Olson of the marvellous Hugo Stiglitz Makes MoviesWhen I think of the great opening scenes in film history I think of Argento’s Suspiria, Scorsese’s Raging Bull, L…
- July 31st, 2009
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The Year 2004: Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (Alexandra Cassavetes)
This post was submitted by Greg Ferrara of the superb Cinema Styles I've mentioned the Z channel on Cinema Styles before. In a long ago post on the Oscars in the seventies I mentioned how the Z Channe…
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The Year 2001: Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer)
Who can forget Ben Kingsley's ferocious turn in Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast? The man that played Ghandi, the waif like figure of non-violent protest, comes up with one of the most iconic psychopaths…
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The Year 2001: Secret Ballot (Babak Payami)
Originally posted on 4th November 2008, American election day, Marilyn Ferdinand of Ferdy on films, etc, her supreme blog where she's just wrapping her great reports on Ebertfest; including meeting th…
- July 30th, 2009
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The Year 2004: The Raspberry Reich (Bruce LaBruce)
This post was submitted by Joe Bowman of the excellent Fin de CinemaIn the years following the pinnacle of New Queer Cinema, the description "aggressively queer" doesn't come up very often. While both…
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The Year 2001: Suriyothai (Chatrichalerm Yukol )
At the time, Chatrichalerm Yukol's ambitious historical epic, set in 1548, retelling the story of Queen Suriyothai, one of Thailand's foremost heroines, was by far the most expensive film ever to be p…
- July 29th, 2009
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The Year 2004: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Kerry Conran)
Harking back to the sci-fi pulp of the 40's, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a lush, grand spectacle that was seen as something as a box-office flop back in 2004. Conran creates a look and f…
- July 28th, 2009
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The Year 2004: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Weerasethakul's fourth feature put Thailand on the art cinema map when in 2004, headed by Quentin Tarantino, it scooped the Jury prize at Cannes. One of the leading lights in experimental cinema, Api…
- July 27th, 2009
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The Year 2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Former music director Michel Gondry takes another crack at a Charlie Kaufman script, one of the few writers in the business who's name alone can sell a movie, and the results are simply spectacular.…
- July 26th, 2009
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The Year 2001: The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, as well as notching up best actor and actresses awards for Benoit Magimel and Isabelle Huppert, The Piano Teacher, Michael Haneke's psycho-drama adapted from…
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The Year 2004 : Saw (James Wan)
Four films later, with one in the pipeline, James Wan directorial début 'Saw' has now become a successful franchise which shows no signs of abating, revolving around the fictional psychopath 'Jigsaw'…
- July 25th, 2009
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The Year 2004: Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)
British director Shane Meadows has been forming a reputation, as an up and coming talent, for some years which arguably came to fruition with this genre revenge pic, about a solider returning to his h…
- July 24th, 2009
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The Year 2004: Birth (Jonathan Glazer)
Kicking off 2004, the fifth instalment in our attempt to chronicle the cinema of the noughties, is one of Counting Down The Zeroes most esteemed regular contributors. Jeff Ignatius, of the sublime Cul…
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Goodbye 2003...Hello 2004
Well doesn't time fly when you're having fun.Unfortunately there's no time to stop and smell the roses, in the coming weeks expect reviews on the biggest films of 2004 including Eternal Sunshine of th…
- July 23rd, 2009
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My Top Ten: 2000 - Kevyn Knox, The Cinematheque
Joining our Top Ten party is Kevyn Knox of the almighty 'The Cinematheque', a man who isn't a stranger to the whole top ten process, check out his amazing 'The Top 10 Project', a simple and brilliant…
