2010: Thyme and Time

As we close out the film year, moments from the 20th minute and 10th second of the films of 2010. Here's Mike Leigh's Another Year.

Mary: Brought you a little present, some thyme. It's nothing much.
Gerry: Lovely.

This is the first of many times we see Mary (Lesley Manville) visiting Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) at home. She always arrives frazzled and they're (almost) always welcoming. It's kind of great that the gift she brings is a homophone for something that she's so worried of running out of. They're all getting on in years.

Such a lovely film. It's up for the Screenplay Oscar. Did it ever make it to a theater near you?

Who Should Wear This to the Oscars?

Here's what Julie Atlas Muz who stars in Mathieu Amalric's burlesque film Tournée wore to the Césars  (aka the French Oscars) yesterday.

poll by twiigs.com

How much would you pay to see the uproar at the Oscars if some attendee wore something like that?

Celebrities just don't take enough chances on the red carpet. Like the chance to be arrested for indecent exposure. Live a little movie stars. Come on. No more simple black gowns. We better see something crazy tomorrow night. Who can save us from the boring fashion parade to come?

.p.s. catch up on Oscar posts if you've been slacking!

20:10 The Scariest Movie Ever

As we wrap up the 2010 film year (one last week of awards brouhaha to deal with Oscar weekend and our own awards) a few more screenshots from the 20th minute & 10th second of last year's movies.

Today's topic Documentary Hopeful INSIDE JOB

V.O.: Scott Talbot is the chief lobbyist for the Financial Services Roundtable, one of the most powerful groups in Washington, which represents nearly all of the world's LARGEST financial companies.

Interviewer: Are you comfortable with the fact that several of your member companies have engaged in large scale criminal activities?

Talbot: You'll have to be specific.

The interview responds with an incredulous "okay...uh...", preparing to get specific until Talbot realizes how evil not saying "NO" immediately may have sounded. (Hint: As evil as it actually is). He tries to recover with a more diplomatic response.

THIS IS THE SCARIEST HORROR MOVIE I'VE EVER SEEN. Or at least that I've ever seen recently. Especially in light of the warfare on the middle class and Union workers that the Right Wing is waging at this very moment. But as for Oscar predictions... I do wonder if Inside Job is too dry and informational to take the Oscar? I still doubt that Exit Through the Gift Shop is going to pull it off. It's so unlike what Oscar goes for in the documentary category, regardless of the buzz. Should I predict Wasteland instead, a frequent audience favorite? What'cha think?

File Under Fun: Best Picture Palate Chart

Chart by Foodzie by way of I Love Charts

My favorite part is the chain from "imported or local", imported taking you to The King's Speech and local asking you "so local you'd forage it in your backyard?" which answers with The Fighter. LOLZ.

A Map of the (Oscar) World

If all that chatter about the now infamous address where The King's Speech was partially filmed gets you thinking about location, location, location, here's something to make you even more obsessive. Here's  a map of the 83rd Oscar World.

View 83rd Annual Oscars, The Films of 2010 in a larger map

What's happening closest to your location? Is the Black Swan dancing near you? Maybe you're skinning squirrel's in those Winter's Bone Ozarks with Ree Dolly? Or horseback riding into dangerous True Grit territory? Or maybe you're attending college near The Social Network. (A lot of people do!). Maybe one of the foreign language films is happening right next to  you. Do you know where Amy Adams was born? I didn't until looking it up to drop the pin.

If you like it make sure to pass it on to friends. Or perhaps cartographers.

Related Charts: Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Animated Feature and Foreign Film.