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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: The Wrap Up (Figures and Facts)
Back in January, I published a comprehensive Top 100 Most Anticipated Films list for the upcoming year, I thought I'd wrap it up stats with a checklist below.
Cannes 2010 Predictions (Sidebars): Bertucelli, Bonello, Muntean, Fliegauf
Screen Daily made up their own Tips list with some surprise titles that I don't think will make it to Cannes (although I badly want to see Abdellatif Kechiche's Black Venus, I think he might return to Venice), and some titles that have a good shot which I did not mention (John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole) and plenty of their list mimics my picks - such as Julie Bertucelli's The Tree.
Hurt Locker and Up in the Air Grab Writers Guild of America Awards, Clear Faves for Oscar
No surprises at the WGA's - as Oscar front-runners The Hurt Locker and Up in the Air won in their respective categories for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. Mark Boal's work beat out "500 Days of Summer," "Avatar," "The Hangover" and my favorite original screenplay of the year in "A Serious Man" while Jason Reitman will have to consider getting an award speech strategy ready for Oscar night, as he and Sheldon Turner have even better odds in their category.
Kaplanoglu’s ‘Honey’ Claims Golden Bear
What do Central Station (1998), The Thin Red Line (1999) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (2000) all have in common? They were awarded the top honor at the Berlin Film Festival and you can add Honey, the final leg in Semih Kaplanoglu's trilogy which commenced with Egg and last year's Milk, to that grouping.
Cannes 2010 Predictions (Sidebars): Dolan, Reichardt, Larrain, Kerrigan
What do Juan Antonio Bayona, Bernardo Bertolucci, Guillermo del Toro, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, François Ozon and Wong Kar-Wai have in common? They all got their starts at the far-end of the Croisette in the smallest of the sections called Critic's Week. The section specializes in mostly first time, and sometimes sophomore films from new talent.
