Best Film of 2009?
Date Posted: 14 Dec 09
Posted By: Christian Rose-Day
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It has been a very good year for films on the whole and The Roxy Bar & Screen has shown 127 features altogether. That’s 127 different films, from new to old, weird to wonderful, not to mention the hundreds of short films they have screened, and the dozens of VJ’s who’ve created live visuals. Cinema dead? Not a bit of it…
To celebrate a fantastic year in celluloid, The Roxy have put together their totally unscientific and undemocratic awards of the best films from that 127 shown at the venue this year.
The only film that wasn’t Dirty Dancing to get a round of applause from the audience at the end: Milk
The film watched more than once and still didn’t quite know what was going on but loved it anyway: Synecdoche
The film they only watched once because they didn’t have a clue what was going on, but thought it was the most visually stunning film of the year and probably had the best soundtrack to boot: Il Divo
Best screenplay of the year: Frost Nixon (can’t believe it didn’t win the Oscar…)
Best performances: Milk and Revolutionary Road (was Leo actually better than Kate…?)
Best comedy, and British too!: In the Loop
Most haunting film: the terrific Hunger
Best documentary and the most original film of the year: Waltz with Bashir
The most wonderful and captivating film that could only have been made by Werner Herzog: Encounters at the End of the World
Film with the most laugh out loud, wtf?! moments: Anvil!
And best sci-fi film from the son of David Bowie that was actually quite good: Moon (did anyone mention the director was Bowie’s son?)
The runner’s up slots are going to Kristin Scott Thomas in the quietly beautiful and powerful I’ve Loved You So Long and very close to the number one spot, the frankly magnificent Italian masterpiece, Gomorrah.
Which leaves The Roxy’s film of the year… Let the Right One In
Monday 21st Dec
8pm Let the Right One In
A vampire film, but as different as it gets from Buffy or Twilight, this is a masterpiece of European filmmaking.
Savage yet beautiful, shocking yet sympathetic and generic yet original, this is a moving, captivating film from Sweden. With two outstanding leads gently playing two outsiders trying to fit in, it tells a captivating tale of love, loneliness, friendship and desire.
Quite simply un-missable. Watch it again now before it’s remade badly by Hollywood…
(£3 cover charge / Free entry to members)
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