In a less-than-memorable movie yr, memory loss seemed to be a routine story tool in several of the 12 months's exceptional movies. Meanwhile Jerry Bruckheimer's "Pearl Harbor" was a forgettable Hollywood exploitation of the infamous sneak assault's sixtieth anniversary, and the spells solid with the aid of Harry Potter and the Tolkien trilogy failed to draw me in.
But there are a few fond film memories from 2001.
1. Here's hoping Academy citizens have a longer memory than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who failed to nominate Jack Nicholson for his soul-wrenching performance in "The Pledge." Released in January, director Sean Penn's taut mental study of a retired cop's obsessive search for a baby-killer was the yr's most gripping drama, and few actors ought to inhabit this tortured protagonist with the form of sensitivity, intensity and subtle detail Nicholson brings.
2. Writer-director Christopher Nolan took us on a wild trip in opposite through the thoughts of a person with quick-term memory loss (Guy Pearce) who uses memos to himself or even reminders tatooed on his body to hold him on his relentless hunt for his wife's killer. "Memento's" gimmick of starting at the give up and working to the beginning correctly threw the audience into the hero's disoriented world and made for one of the most unusual and riveting thrillers in latest - or long-term - reminiscence.
three. Joel and Ethan Coen shot "The Man Who Wasn't There" in glorious black-and-white, recreating all the moody nuance of movie noire to tell their tale of a silently suffering man (Billy Bob Thornton) with a two-timing wife (Frances McDormand) and a useless-stop activity who attempts blackmail as a manner out and turns into embroiled in murder. The 1949 duration detail is awesome, and Thornton's subdued performance is a revelation.
4. "Mulholland Drive" took us on a dark and winding trip to the seamier side of Hollywood as seen via the eyes ofyounger female - a clean-faced, aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) and a mysterious amnesiac (Laura Elena Harring) - who shape an ordinary alliance and embark on a seek that brings them in contact with all manner of seedy, weird and perilous L.A. inhabitants. At turns spell binding, humorous, ugly, suspenseful, nighmarishly stressful and entirely baffling, it's miles simply what you'd anticipate whilst author-director David Lynch is on the wheel.
five. Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson are wonderful in director Todd Field's "In the Bedroom," an unsparing take a look at the awful modifications wrought in a middle-age couple whilst their handiest son is murdered and the killer walks unfastened. Long-held secret resentments boil to the floor and drastic conduct consequences in this contemporary tragedy, and it's all performed with a limited, Oscar-caliber energy with the aid of the two leads, with amazing support from Marisa Tomei because the useless son's lady friend.
6. Gathering his ordinary stellar ensemble cast, director Robert Altman goes Agatha Christie one better with "Gosford Park," a whodunit set in an English usa residence it's clearly a skewering of the duration's magnificence bigotry, visible frompoints of view: the idle wealthy upstairs and the servants' world downstairs. High drama and humor abound in Julian Fellowes' screenplay, that is layered with notable characters delivered to existence via uniformly nice performances (mainly from Maggie Smith as Constance, the contemptuous countess).
7. Anthony Hopkins dished up a 2nd perfectly chilled supporting of malevolent cool as "Hannibal" the classy cannibal in the follow-as much as "Silence of the Lambs," a sequel that succeeded despite the absence of the original lady lead and director. Julianne Moore took over the Jodie Foster position of FBI agent Clarice Starling with arresting authority, whilst director Ridley Scott created a sleeker and greater elegant appearance than Jonathan Demme controlled within the first movie. Not pretty as scrumptious because the authentic, however a delectable mystery certainly.
8. Ex-Rolling Stone journalist became filmmaker Cameron Crowe did a rock 'n' roll rewrite of a Spanish psych-out mystery by Alejandro Amenabar ("Abre Los Ojos"), with Tom Cruise as a rich playboy compelled to get severe approximately lifestyles and love. Throw in Penelope Cruz and Cameron Diaz as his romantic pastimes, a top notch sound song featuring Bob Dylan, Radiohead and R.E.M., lovely visuals and a shattering sci-fi climax, and you've "Vanilla Sky," an extremely-hip tackle 21st century humanity and pop culture you will either love or hate.
9. "The Majestic" is aimed strictly at soft-hearted suckers for old skool romance, lovely authentic-blue blond girlfriends, adorable antique daddies with hearts of gold, Frank Capra films and warm apple pie. Zany-boy Jim Carrey acquits himself well as a blacklisted Hollywood author in 1951 who receives right into a car accident, loses his reminiscence and finishes up in a small metropolis where he is improper for an extended-misplaced son presumed killed in World War II. Martin Landau turns on tear ducts because the aforementioned daddy, and Frank Darabont skillfully directs this endearing American fairy story by using Michael Sloane.
10. The late Stanley Kubrick envisioned a dark, high-tech tackle "Pinocchio," and director Steven Spielberg introduced a slightly gentler but no less somber version to the display, with Haley Joel Osment as an experimental robot toddler capable of human emotions, and designed to sign up for and luxury a own family whose human toddler has died. "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" paints a grim futureworld of melting polar caps and coastal cities underwater, where having kids is authorities-regulated, and robots do our dirty work. Visually beautiful but emotionally tricky, this film nevertheless posed probing questions. I imply, I love my Camaro, but ought to my Camaro ever love me?
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