Every scene tells us this and gives us an opportunity to tsk-tsk his staunch rejection of his granddaughter who he believes, despite her lineage, can’t inherit the leadership of this Maori village because of her gender. Whale Rider tells the story of a young girl, Paikea, who lives in New Zealand with a stern grandfather who, apparently, needs to get modern. Stars: Keisha Castle-Huges, Rawiri Paratene Writers: Witi Ihimaera (novele), Niki Caro (screenplay) I’m not into doing a snuff ?lm, and I have to respect the dignity and privacy of two individuals’ deaths.”- Robert Davis The moment I heard the tape it was instantly clear: Only over my dead body is this tape going to end up in the movie. The interesting thing is that Jewel Palovak who was working with Treadwell and living with Treadwell for 20 years tries to read my face, and it’s very, very intense and moving for her. You only see me from behind, listening to it with earphones. “So I listened to it, and that’s the only time I appear in the ?lm. “The question of the tape which recorded Timothy Treadwell’s death and Amie Huguenard’s death is something that I had to address,” Herzog told Paste in 2007. Herzog tastefully omits it from the ?lm, but he makes the viewer aware of its existence. This pro?le of nature lover Timothy Treadwell, who unwisely tried to live among wild bears in Alaska until he was devoured, cuts a Herzogian swath across the hillside: A man attempts to ?nd harmony with nature but instead ?nds, as Herzog puts it, “chaos, hostility and murder.” Looming over the ?lm is not only the horror of Treadwell’s demise but also an audio recording of the tragedy, taped inadvertently by the video camera in Treadwell’s tent. Since Flight falls at the simple-but-elegant end of Hou’s spectrum, the mysterious and lyrical finale in the Musée D’Orsay comes as a surprise this balloon is anchored by some heft.- Robert Davis
He slips behind Lamorisse’s facade like the Taiwanese amateur filmmaker who takes a job as Binoche’s nanny, an echo of Hou within his own story the nanny even tells us how special effects make the balloon move. Lamorisse’s short is about a loner of a boy who has the best of all possible friends, an amazingly reactive balloon, but Hou’s film is a realistic look at the inside of this fantasy, at the modern-day stresses on close-knit families. This makes the entire project feel like a detour for an artist best known for complex, austere films about Taiwan’s pulsing present and tumultuous history. Hou is working in France instead of his usual Taiwan, and with Academy Award-winning actress Juliette Binoche instead of his cast of regulars. Although it’s not a film for kids, it’s an homage to Albert Lamorisse’s endearing children’s short “The Red Balloon,” and at times it seems as buoyant and aimless as a helium-filled toy.
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It’s tempting to put the latest movie by Hou Hsiao-hsien into a neat little box. Stars: Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Giradot
Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge) (2008) Personally, after reading the loving descriptions in these pages, I’ve already got films I missed the first time around-like Syndromes and a Century and Beau Travail-on the way.- Josh Jackson, Paste editor-in-chiefĤ8. Let these be our recommendations for your Netflix queue-or in the case of #21, a theater near you. Mirroring a decade of globalism, the filmmakers are from the United States, New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, Ireland, France, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Romania, Thailand, Brazil, and nearly every part of the U.K. There are documentaries, comedies and dramas, as well as animated films and even a super-hero flick.
There are masters like Martin Scorcese and Lars Von Trier, and relative newcomers like Fernando Meirelles and Anna Boden. But despite the wild variety among our 50 Best Movies from 2000-2009, each is an exquisitely made, exceptionally satisfying piece of cinema that we believe will endure well after the decade has ended. If comparing music from Gillian Welch and Outkast in our 50 Best Albums of the Decade is like apples and oranges, ranking films like Amélie, The Dark Knight and Mulholland Drive is more like apples, ice cream and foie gras.
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