[情報] Roger Ebert 年度二十佳片

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Roger Ebert的09年終榜單

網頁http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_2009.html


年度二十佳片(排名不分先後)
會分成主流院線和獨立院線兩部份

Top 10 Mainstream Films

爆裂警官（Bad Lieutenant）
Werner Herzog's edgy noir fed off Nicolas Cage's flywheel intensity in a
portrait of a cokehead cop out of control in post-Katrina New Orleans. He
starts out bad and, driven by a painful back and pain meds, goes crazy and
gets away with it because of the badge. Herzog paints the storied city in
dark shadows and a notable lack of glamour, and when he involves Cage in a
stare-down with an iguana it somehow needs no explanation. I predict they'll
work together again. They probably got along at least as well as Herzog and
Klaus Kinski.

瘋狂之心（Crazy Heart）
Crazy Heart. This year's late-opening sleeper, built on a probable
Oscar-winning performance by Jeff Bridges. He plays a nearly-forgotten C&W
singer, touring nasty dives and smoky honky-tonks for a few dollars and
change. He had hit songs, but alcoholism eroded him. Maggie Gyllenhaal is
inspired as the woman who cares for him but doubts his newfound sobriety--and
no, this isn't a cornball story about romantic redemption. After the
screening a critic said: "This year's "The Wrestler." That sounded about
right. Astonishing debut by Scott Cooper.

成長教育（An Education）
A star is born with Carey Mulligan's performance as a 16-year-old schoolgirl
who is flattered and romanced, along with her protective parents, by an
attractive, mysterious man in his mid-30s (Peter Sarsgaard). He's
sophisticated, she's not; she sees him as a way out of London suburbia and
into the circles she dreams of entering. He's not a molester but an
opportunist and role-player, and Lone Scherfig's film is wise about what
people want in a relationship and what they get. Faithfully adapted by Nick
Hornby from the memoirs of the well-known British journalist Lynn Barber.

危機倒數（The Hurt Locker）
"War is a drug," the opening title informs us, and in one of the best war
movies ever, Jeremy Renner plays an expert member of an elite bomb disposal
unit in Iraq. Somewhat guarded by a protective suit, he handles delicate
mechanisms designed to outwit him. It's like chess. He's very good at his
job, but is that what drives him to put his life on the line hundreds of
times? Not pro-war, not anti-war, not about the war in Iraq, but about the
minds of dedicated combat soldiers. Directed flawlessly by Kathryn Bigelow;
as one critic's group after another honored it in their year-end awards, it
became a sure thing for picture, actor and director nominations.

惡棍特工（Inglourious Basterds）
Quentin Tarantino is a natural and joyous filmmaker who feeds off his own
tory story that fearlessly rewrites history. It finally comes down to a
conflict between a fatuous Nazi monster (Chrisophe Waltz) and a fearless
French Jewish heroine (Mélanie Laurent), with Brad Pitt as a knife wielding
American commando leader. You have to hand him this: it's one World War Two
movie where we don't know the ending. Waltz won best actor at Cannes 2009,
has swept the critic's awards, is a shoo-in as best supporting actor.

末日預言（Knowing）
Among the best of science fiction films--frightening, suspenseful,
intelligent, and, when it needs to be, rather awesome. In its very different
way it's comparable to the great "Dark City," by the same director, Alex
Proyas. That film was about the hidden nature of the world men think they
inhabit, and so is this one. I loved the film's extravagance of energy, and
the hard-charging Nicolas Cage performance (so different from his work in
"Bad Lieutenant.") My praise stirred up a fierce pro and con debate among
readers: http://j.mp/4MmMss

珍愛人生（Precious）
The heart-rending story of an overweight, abused young teenager and the
support she finds from a teacher and a social worker, who both glimpse her
potential. Harrowing, depressing, and yet uplifting, as director Lee Daniels
uses her fantasies to show the dreams inside. What a sure and brave lead
performance by newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, and what a powerful one by Mo'Nique,
as her heartless mother. She, Mariah Carey, Paula Patton and Sherri Shepherd
are all but unrecognizable as they disappear into key supporting roles.

正經好人（A Serious Man）
Another great film the Coen Brothers, returning to their homeland of the
Minneapolis suburbs to tell the story of a modern-day Job who strives to be a
good man, a "serious man," and finds everything--but everything--going wrong.
Michael Stuhlbarg gives a virtuoso lead performance as the suffering man, who
earnestly tries to do the right thing. Fred Melamed is inspired as his best
friend, who, he discovers, is having an affair with his wife. The friend
tries to console him; he is grief and grief counselor at once.

型男飛行日誌（Up in the Air）
George Clooney plays a man for the first decade of this uncertain century.
"Where do you live?" he's asked while seated in a first class airplane seat.
"Here." He wants no home, no wife, no family, and says he is happy. His job
is depriving others of theirs; he's a Termination Facilitator. He fires
people for a living. Vera Farmiga plays his friendly fellow road warrior who
sleeps with him on the road. Anna Kendrick is the sincere young college grad
whose first job is terminating others. The third wonderful film by Jason
Reitman, after "Thank You for Smoking" and "Juno."

白色緞帶（The White Ribbon）
The subterranean and labyrinthine secret history of a German village in the
years before World War One. A mysterious series of deaths descends like a
vengeance. Michael Haneke's elegant b&w photography etches the rural
community in striking portraits of sinister normality. We become familiar
with the important villagers, we follow their stories, we comprehend
everything hat happens -- but something else is happening, something
unspoken, kept secret from them, among them, and from us. Infinitely
tantalizing.


Top 10 Independent Films

送行者
In Japan, a young man apprentices to the trade of "encoffinment," the
preparation of corpses before their cremation. It is the only employment he
can find, after he loses his job as a cellist in an orchestra that goes
broke. The company owner approaches the job as a sacred vocation, and
although the hero and his wife find the task unsettling, he slowly learns a
new respect for himself through respect for the dead. A visually beautiful
and poetic film by Yojiro Takita. Winner of the 2009 Academy Award as best
foreign film.

屈辱（Disgrace）
A masterful performance by John Malkovich as a disgraced Cape Town English
professor, forced to resign during the first years of Nelson Mandela's
administration. He goes to live with his daughter (Jessica Haines) on her
remote farm, where the manager (Eriq Ebouaney) seems to be establishing an
independence of his own. The hard, ambiguous issues of the new South African
world are squarely engaged in Steve Jacobs's film, based on the novel by
Nobel winner J.M. Coetzee.

永遠的瞬間（Everlasting Moments）
The great Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell ("The Emigrants" and "The New Land")
tells the story of the wife of an alcoholic dock worker in Malmo in 1911.
He's not a bad man, except when he drinks. She wins a camera in a lottery and
tries to pawn it, but the camera store owner develops the one photo she took,
looks at it thoughtfully, and asks her to keep taking pictures. Her inner
life is transformed by discovering that she has an artistic talent. A
luminous performance by Maria Heiskanen.

再見索羅（Goodbye Solo）
the third remarkable film by Ramin Bahrani, after "Man Push Cart" and "Chop
Shop." In Winston-Salem, NC, a straight-talking man around 70 (onetime Elvis
bodyguard Red West) gets into the taxi of an African immigrant (Souleymane Sy
Savané, from the Ivory Coast). For $1,000, paid immediately, he wants to be
driven in 10 days to the top of a mountain in Blowing Rock National Park, to
a place so windy that the snow falls up. He says nothing about a return trip.
As a friendship develops between them, the days tick inexorably away.

茱莉亞（Julia）
The most striking performance in Tilda Swinton's exciting career. Only poor
marketing prevented this from succeeding as the thriller of the year. Swinton
plays an alcoholic slut who agrees to help kidnap a child, and ends up with
him on an odyssey in Mexico through a thorn thicket of people you do not want
to meet. If there's one thing consistent about her behavior, it's how she
lies to all of them. Directed by Erick Zonca.

寂靜之光（Silent Light）
A story of romance and conscience set among the Mennonites of Mexico. A
happily married man falls in love with a single woman, and she with them, and
they are both haunted by guilt. Their gravitas is a stark contrast to the
casual attitude toward sex in most films; they are violating rules they
respect, hurting people they love. Such matters are rarely taken so seriously
in films. Carlos Reygadas tells his story with a clarity and attention worthy
of Bresson.

同路人（Sin Nombre）
Up through Mexico, those hopeful of entering the U.S. ride the top of a
freight train. We meet a girl from Honduras with her father and uncle, and a
young gang member fleeing for his life. The journey is difficult and
dangerous, but also oddly lovely and epic. A parallel story involves a gang
set up to rob the would-be immigrants, who often carry all their wealth with
them. Written and directed by Cary Fukunaga, another of this year's
remarkable debut filmmakers.

困膚（Skin）
The Sandra Laing story obsessed South Africans in 1965. She was the daughter
of white Afrikaners. She didn't look white. Her father fights to the Supreme
Court to have her reclassified as white, and then when she falls in love with
a black man she tries to have her classification changed. A wrenching
dilemma, starring Sophie Okonedo ("Dirty Pretty Things") in a tricky and
compelling role, and Sam Neill as her deeply conflicted father.

卡車司機（Trucker）
Michelle Monaghan is remarkable as a truck driver who has just paid off her
own rig. She's 30ish, hard-drinking, promiscuous, estranged from the father
(Benjamin Bratt) of her 12-year-old son. In an emergency she has to take the
boy back, and that leads from an arm's-length relationship to difficult
personal discoveries. A powerful debut by writer-director James Mottern, who
avoids the obvious gurns this story could take and follows the characters wih
empathy.

啊！人生（You, the Living）
In a sad world and a sad city, sad people lead sad lives and complain that
they hate their jobs and nobody understands them. The result is in some ways
a comedy with a twist of the knife, and in other ways a film like nobody else
has ever made--except for its director, Roy Andersson of Sweden. Fifty
vignettes, almost all shot with a static camera, in medium and long shot. You
laugh to yourself, silently, although you're never quite sure why. Flawless
in what it does, and we have no idea what that is.


阿凡達（Avatar）評審特別獎
Now you are thinking, hey, what about "Avatar?" Faithful readers know of my
annual Special Jury Prize. This year it goes to James Cameron's
ground-breaking epic. No, that doesn't mean it's the best film of the year.
It means it won the Special Jury Prize.


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※ 編輯: orzisme         來自: 220.137.188.38       (12/21 06:55)
推 Ksp:看到knowing嚇了一跳
推 rober1103:knowing的飛機那段  我一直認為是 真的.......
推 Ksp:我對knowing最印象最深的地方也是墜機那邊 特效有夠讚
推 shazam:很會嘴泡的一個老先生
推 ris6825:Ebert 在當初對 Knowing 的影評中就給了 4/4 滿分
→ ris6825:劈頭第一句就說這部是他看過最棒的科幻片之一
→ ris6825:所以....不用嚇到 XDD
→ ris6825:Ebert 在美國資深影評人的行列中 本來就算是對商業片比較
→ ris6825:寬容的一位 他也經常會以觀影經驗或是娛樂感受來作為他給
→ ris6825:高分的依據...基本上就是很平民...不會自以為曲高合寡
→ ris6825:逛他的部落格久了就能大概猜到...Knowing根本就是他的菜..
→ ris6825:雖然我竊以為這片是不差 但要排到這麼高還是有點科科...
推 IvnGoran:凱吉出運了!!!
→ orzisme:看到有Knowing 我也嚇到 囧 不過他一直很喜歡這導演 他之
→ orzisme:前的"極光追殺令" Ebert也很愛
推 nuker:推一下爆烈警官，非常棒!!凱吉終於恢復影帝級的演技了!!
推 nuker:未日預言其實也不錯，只是收尾真的收的很爛，最後一幕太
→ nuker:畫蛇添足了，再加上黛安娜跟兒子的超爛演技，扣太多分了= =
推 Morayeel:knowing去掉最後一景，就變成Dark City的前傳...