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Cahiers du Cinema Top 10 List Honors Terrence Malick, Lars Von Trier and… J.J. Abrams?

The annual Cahiers du Cinema Top 10 of 2011 list has been revealed, naming works by the likes of Terrence Malick , Lars von Trier , Jerzy Skolimowsky, and Manoel de Oliveira . Also in the winners’ circle? J.J. Abrams ! See the full eclectic list after the jump, not to mention the crazy ties in votes that make this early Top 10 a doozy to wrap your mind around…

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VIDEO: Half-Naked Jennifer Lawrence Gets Painted Blue for X-Men: First Class

Karina Longworth Prefers The Human Centipede to Another Year

Mike Leigh’s Another Year , which has been met with generally positive reviews (currently 89% on Rotten Tomatoes) and even some Oscar buzz for Lesley Manville’s performance, has just received it’s first takedown from a major critic. “I haven’t seen a film this year that so openly invited me to revile each and every one of its characters — and I reviewed The Human Centipede ,” wrote Karina Longworth in LA Weekly . Not only that, her Human Centipede review was a positive one. [ LA Weekly ]

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Wong Kar Wai vs. Terrence Malick: Who’s Got the More Inscrutable Trailer?

Like a phoenix rising from the stagnant pre-New Year’s Eve cesspool of news, here comes the teaser for the new Wong Kar Wai martial arts film The Grandmasters , with Tony Leung kicking and punching his way through…what’s that? There’s no kicking or punching in the teaser? Oh. There’s almost no indication of what the film looks like, you say. That seems about right for today. But here at Movieline HQ, this teaser made us wonder: Is this one-minute blast of calligraphy really any less revealing than the unexplained imagery in the much-drooled-over Tree of Life trailer ?

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It Exists! The Trailer for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life Finally Premieres Online

Unless you were one of the chosen people Fox Searchlight invited to their lot two weeks ago for a special “screening” of the trailer for Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life — or, you know, unless you spotted it pirated on YouTube; or in the theater when you saw Black Swan — this is the first time you’re seeing anything resembling moving images from the much-delayed film. Try not to hyperventilate, folks! Let’s hold hands and take a look together.

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