The Best Film of 2001: Lovely and Amazing.
Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 05:12PM 
“Best in Film” Each Year: A Series
• Introduction to “Best in Film” series
This is a hard year to call. I know for certain that the Academy choosing ‘A Beautiful Mind’ was one of the worst decisions of all time, but here my heart is torn. I remember at the time fighting for ‘In The Bedroom’, but all these years later I can’t remember why. Certainly ‘Amelie’ and ‘Moulin Rouge!’ were great but they relied more on art direction than cinematic significance. I love ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ for the change it promised to bring and ‘Ghost World’ for the originality of character. ‘Donnie Darko’ will always be loved by the cult side of me, ‘Gosford Park’ was an embarrassment of riches and ‘Kissing Jessica Stein’ charms me to this day.
Thus I am left with a close race between ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’, ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’, and ‘Lovely and Amazing’. I stop to think and must admit that the film that had the most impact on me was Nicole Holofcener’s over-looked film about the insecurities of women and the fragility of their relationships to one another. This film showed me honest women I could relate to for the first time and so it wins out over the style of ‘Tenenbaums’ and the passion of ‘Tambien’.
- The Oscar went to…’A Beautiful Mind’
- #1 at the box office: ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’
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Jessica Lyric: Bio
Jessica Lyric is a pop culture enthusiast. She has a life-long passion for film ranging from the birth of cinema to more modern fare. She is a secondary English teacher with degrees in Film, English and Education. She currently lives in Vancouver with her husband, Jordan. Her blog ‘The Film Junkie’s Pop Culture Blog’ focuses on everything from hated actresses to the current television climate and everything in between. Her favorite movie is ‘The Wizard of Oz’; her favorite book is ‘The Corrections’ by Jonathan Franzen; her favorite album is Rilo Kiley’s ‘More Adventurous’; and her all-time favorite TV show is ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
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