1989 – the year that gave us the superhero blockbuster with Tim Burton’s Batman (alas too flawed a film to quite make my final list) and a slew of Amerindie classics by future top line directors like Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Gus Van Sant and Steven Soderberg. Here, then, are the best 15 films of [...]
I’m not the only critic to pick up on Daniel Day-Lewis’ oddball accent du jour in Paul Thomas Anderson’s powerhouse American epic There Will Be Blood. The first 15 minutes (or so) come accompanied by nothing other than Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood’s unsettling dissonant score. Thus, when Day-Lewis as ravenous, rapacious oil baron Daniel Plainview [...]
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