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What were your favorite movies of the past year?

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posted by Ivy Moylan

I am compiling a list of all of the films released in 2010 and gathering what our staff’s favorite films were. I hope to have all of this posted on the blog next week. But in the meantime, what films awed and inspired you or just plain entertained you last year? There were some big duds, but some highlights as well. I haven’t fully thought out my list but I know that The Oath and Micmacs will both be on it. And since the Brattle shows both the old and the new, if you saw and older movie for the first time in 2010 and it blew you away, post that too!

Hot off the presses! New PDF of Sept/Oct calendar

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It will hit the streets tomorrow but for those of you clamboring to know what we have coming up, there is a link on our homepage to download the PDF of our newest Brattle calendar (and also copied below).

I am excited about almost everything here. So many movies, so little time! What are you looking forward to?

http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/index.html

Your weekend reading – movie news

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These stories have been passed around the Brattle office this week and I wanted to share them with you as well:

Maury Chakin at Brattle Theatre receiving an award from the Chlotrudis Society of Independent Film

Great interview with Bill Murray where he expounds upon the brilliance of Kung Fu Hustle

Piece from The Believer about Cambridge filmmakers Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Not sure how bad this news is for the film industry – the UK Film Council was shut down by their government this week

But I do know how bad this news is – Canadian character actor Maury Chaykin passed away this week on his 61st birthday

And we are excited about Toronto International Film Festival’s recent announcement of titles for this year’s festival line-up (This weekend’s film premiere, Valhalla Rising, was a title that Ned and I saw at Toronto last year and loved.)

I welcome your thoughts and reactions to any of these articles in the comments.

Sad news – Canadian actress Tracy Wright passes from pancreatic cancer

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I just found out that Tracy Wright was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last week and today I am given this sad news! You may have seen her in person at the Brattle when she received an award from the Chlotrudis Society of Independent Film, along with husband Don McKellar, or you may have seen her in Monkey Warfare when it screened in the Independent Film Festival of Boston, or when we hosted the Boston premiere of the film at the Brattle. OR you may have seen her in the many other interesting performances she gave in Canadian and American indie films.

She was a wonderful talent, strong actress and a super cool chick. She will be dearly missed by all of us at the Brattle.

To read more about her, here is a great piece from The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/actress-tracy-wright-was-true-to-her-craft-until-the-end/article1615092/