Posts tagged Far from the Madding Crowd
COLUMN: Who should win/will win the 2016 Golden Globes?
COLUMN: Who should win/will win the 2016 Golden Globes?

More and more each year, the Golden Globes have become more an a popularity contest than a true precursor to the Academy Awards.  What you're watching on TV is a party thrown by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and hosted by Ricky Gervais in an effort to be loved and share some love.  To its credit, the awards show still garners legitimate attention and ratings.  The winners do get a pretty positive rub and the marketers gain a few more "Winner of..." graphics to put in the newspapers next to their films.

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2015, 2016, Editorial, Column, SPECIALDon ShanahanBest Original Score, Carter Burwell, Carol, Daniel Pemberton, Steve Jobs, Alexandre Desplat, The Danish Girl, Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, The Revenant, John Williams, Johann Johannsson, Creed, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Fifty Shades of Grey, Furious 7, Elle Goulding, Wiz Khalifa, Brian Wilson, Love and Mercy, Writing's on the Wall, Sam Smith, Spectre, Simple Song #3, Sumi Jo, Youth, Mustang, Son of Saul, The Brand New Testament, The Club, The Fencer, Timbuktu, The Assassin, Best Foreign Language Film, Amour, The Artist, Best Animated Feature, Inside Out, Shaun the Sheep, Shaun the Sheep Movie, The Good Dinosaur, The Peanuts Movie, Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Disney/Pixar, Emma Donoghue, Room, Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer, Spotlight, Aaron Sorkin, Adam McKay, Charlie Randolph, The Big Short, Quentin Tarantino, Brooklyn, Michael Shannon, 99 Homes, Idris Elba, Beasts of No Nation, Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies, Sylvester Stallone, Paul Dano, Mark Ruffalo, Benecio del Toro, Sicario, Jacob Tremblay, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Helen Mirren, Trumbo, Jane Fonda, Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina, Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria, Lily Tomlin, Grandma, Jennifer Lawrence, Joy, Melissa McCarthy, Spy, Maggie Smith, The Lady in the VAn, The Lady in the Van, Amy Schumer, Trainwreck, Teyonah Parris, Chi-Raq, Al Pacino, Danny Collins, Infinitely Polar Bear, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Matt Damon, The Martian, Kevin Hart, Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett, Brie Larson, Charlize Theron, Carey Mulligan, Suffragette, Far from the Madding Crowd, Will Smith, Concussion, Michael Fassbender, Eddie Redmayne, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bryan Cranston, Michael Keaton, Michael B. Jordan, Tom Hanks, The Wolf of Wall Street, Todd Hayne, George Miller, Ridley Scott, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globes, 73rd Golden Globes, Golden Globe nominees, Golden Globe winners, who will win/should win, Awards Predictions, Awards Tracker, Awards Talk, 88th Academy Awards, Donald Shanahan, Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a LessonComment
COLUMN: The 10 Best Films of 2015
COLUMN: The 10 Best Films of 2015

I prefer to be strict enough with my mind and my heart to rank the best and not just give some alphabetical list.  This was a difficult list to settle on for an order.  After 84 films this year, I think I've seen all I need to see to give out a complete and legitimate "10 Best" list.  Here are my picks and, in the spirit of this site, each of the "10 Best" are paired with their best life lesson.  Enjoy!

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CAPSULE REVIEW, Column, 2015, Best Films, Editorial, 2016, SPECIALDon ShanahanTen Best, The Last Five Years, Macbeth, Far from the Madding Crowd, 2016, The Gift, Best Films of 2015, life lessons, Room, 2015, 10 Best, Chi-Raq, Top 10 list, The Revenant, Steve Jobs, Don Shanahan, movie commentary, Brooklyn, Donald Shanahan, life lessons from movies, Every Movie Has a Lesson, Love and Mercy, Creed, Inside Out, 10 Best Films of 2015, Sicario, Carol, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, life lessons from films, Avengers: Age of Ultron, life lessons from film, The Martian, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, film commentary, Spotlight, '71Comment
EDITORIAL: The Best of 2015 (so far)
EDITORIAL: The Best of 2015 (so far)

The end of June marks the halfway point of 2015.  This website makes it a point each year to measure the calendar year's offerings so far of what has been the best with the goal of building a year-end "10 Best" list.  This is as good a place as any to honor the fine efforts that have graced the screen this half-year.  Here are the "Top 5 (so far)."

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MOVIE REVIEW: Far from the Madding Crowd
MOVIE REVIEW: Far from the Madding Crowd

The prose and tasteful passion captured by the classic writers then put the tawdry and repetitive theatrics of today's writers to shame.  In that same regard, so too do solid film adaptations that tap the proper classic roots.  "Far from the Madding Crowd" is a stellar example of this.  Permeating with possibilities and charged with the right measure of passion in every engrossing layer, Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's film stands head and shoulders above the feeble likes of today's lesser efforts of cinematic literary romance.  It's cliche to say, but they don't make them like they used to and this film proves it.

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2015, 5 STARS, MOVIE REVIEWDon ShanahanLandmark Uptown Lagoon TheatreCarey Mulligan, The Hunt, Far from the Madding Crowd, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Thomas Hardy, Classic novels, Romance novels, Literary adaptations, life lessons from films, life lessons from movies, life lessons from film, life lessons, Don Shanahan, Donald Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson, movie commentary, film commentary, film scores, Craig Armsrong, David Nicholls Comments