20:10 The Patriarch's Wishes.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 10:12PM The 11th annual Film Bitch Awards have wrapped... finally. Just for fun and a bit of retro nodding, here's the image from the 20th minute and 10th second of 2010's Gold Medalist, I AM LOVE.
It's that fateful dinner time scene when the Rechhi patriarch makes a shocking announcement that will begin to tear at the fabric of the wealthy clan, eventually weakening their solidarity and collective grip on their prized exotic possession, Emma (Tilda Swinton). Ugh, I love that movie so much!
He picked me, mommy. Did you hear me?
Black Swan was the leader with 16 nominations and 13 medals all told spread out on every awards page: major nods, acting, visuals, sound, line readings, character & extras, and scene work but it was The Social Network which took home the most gold (8). The South Korean marvel Mother managed the best nomination tally without any accompanying medals (4) and Rabbit Hole, which just missed the year's top ten list, had a strangely not-so strong showing with only 2 nominations and one gold (Nicole Kidman, Best Actress) ...
But awards are never a 100% accurate reflection of one's love.
Reader Comments (6)
almost every film award will have some surprise for me
Thanks for the awards Nathaniel - always look forward to the best scenes/credits etc
Still need to catch up on one or two from 2010 like Never Let Me Go, Cairo and Made in Dagenham...and Paprika it would seem if I'm able to track that one down.
The Enter the Void credits were pretty dazzling - as a film, I much prefer it to Irreversible.
Great call on the Pyramids scene in CAIRO TIME. What a beautiful moment in a beautiful film that frankly more people should see. But your other scenes were damn well chosen, sir!
Also love that my top two films of the year, SCOTT PILGRIM and BLUE VALENTINE, did pretty well in your awards.
Worth the wait!
I just saw Rabbit Hole the other night (finally!) and I wasn't blown away by it. Some really great performances - it was mostly the supporting cast who impressed me most, Weist, Sandra Oh, Miles Teller; it was a very good ensemble, I thought. But it also had the feel of a made-for-TV movie. And the class politics of the film could be a bit odd at times, as was the wholesale rejection of support groups (even if I sometimes agreed.)
It's an honor to be nominated, sure, but neither the opening nor closing of Mother gets to medal? I'd also have singled out the funeral over the cellphone scene, but that's splitting hairs. The important thing is you remembered what I consider to be the second best film of 2010. Damn the distributor for doing a one weekend and done release on this. A little marketing push for a bizarre foreign thriller is all it takes to get a nice box office take and some US awards consideration.
Once Nic took Best Actress, I'm okay. At least RABBIT HOLE managed some nods, I've been getting some weird looks from folks when I told them it was my favourite 2010 film.