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Best Movie of 2006?
Kelda:
5. RED ROAD (released October 27)
--- Quote ---British writer-director Andrea Arnold, who collected the 2005 Oscar for best live action short, graduates effortlessly to feature film with this voyeuristic thriller that crawls under your skin and lingers in the memory long after the end credits roll.
CCTV operator Jackie (Kate Dickie) is one of the team of people charged with scouring the city, spotting trouble before it happens. While focusing one of the cameras on the Red Road estate, Jackie is shocked to see Clyde (Tony Curran), the man she thought was still in prison for killing her husband and child.
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Red Road is a notorious estate in Glasgow (gang fights are common - and its really just a very depressing council estate) - I haven't seen it but I have been told it gived a pretty accurate portrayal of life there. And has got a lot of directing and acting awards... If you want an idea of REAL scottidh accents - and not those of Mel Gibson in Braveheart - see this!!!
ednbarby:
Just got United 93 yesterday. I'm hoping to watch it tomorrow or Sunday night. I hope it doesn't sound weird, but I'm looking forward to it. It's on most critics' top ten list for the year, and is many's Number One.
serious crayons:
I think BBM deserves to be the Best Movie of the Year for at least two years (depending on where and when it opened). I know it will be MY best movie of the year every year from now on!
But among others you saw in 2006, what was your favorite (is this same question being answered on another thread? if so, I'm sorry to be redundant, but it's hard to keep track; here are so many movie threads these days).
Anyway, mine would be Little Miss Sunshine, probably. But with The Prestige a close second and maybe The Departed third (tarnished, IMO, by the ending). Oh, The Queen is in there somewhere, too. Maybe tied with The Departed.
ednbarby:
I don't think I've seen it yet. At least I hope not, because everything I've seen thus far has been varying degrees of lackluster. Or has BBM just ruined enjoying mediocre movies for me?
I'm hoping United 93 fixes that. I'm actually hoping to be haunted again, but by something different. I can't stand this no more, Jack.
Scott6373:
United 93
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Illusionist
The Departed
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