The Noah Castle Film Awards (Epilogue)

The Noecitos have been handed for the first time!! That might look like nothing but it is actually a big deal to me. I think it is a great way to celebrate love for the movies. But there is a sad part and that not every movie can make the cut so I wanted to dedicate the epilogue to the 49 films that were in no way represented in the NCFAs. For math's sake I'll say that a total of 46 films were somehow mentioned during this year's festivities so that means that I've watched so far 95 eligible films.

Of course, the lack of these 49 films cannot be attributed to a single factor. Some had a lot of competence and some were just awful. So here they come: the forgotten ones!

The really good ones (a.k.a.  The "I can't believe they were not mentioned!")

Exit through the Gift Shop by Banksy

María y Yo by Félix Fernández de Castro

Toy Story 3 by Lee Unkrich

The good ones

Balada Triste de Trompeta  by Álex de la Iglesia

Bicicleta Cullera Poma by Carles Bosch

Bon Appétit by David Pinillos

Film Socialisme by Jean-Luc Godard (under the category WTF?)

Incendies by Denis Villeneuve 

The King's Speech by Tom Hooper

Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

El Mal Ajeno by Oskar Santos

Mistérios de Lisboa by Raoul Ruiz

Pa Negre  by Agustí Villaronga

Rabia by Sebastián Cordero

Shutter Island by Martin Scorsese

Todo lo que tú quieras by Achero Mañas

The ones between good and O.K.

Going the Distance by Nannette Burstein

Harry Potter 7.1 by David Yates

La Isla Interior by Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso

Knight and Day by James Mangold

Leap Year by Anand Tucker

London River by Rachid Bouchareb

Machete by Robert Rodríguez

La Mosquitera by Agustí Vila

Mr. Nobody by Jaco Van Dormael

Prince of Persia by Mike Newell

The Runaways by Flora Sigismondi

The Switch by Josh Gordon and Will Speck

True Grit by Joel and Ethan Coen

The O.K. ones

Centurion by Neil Marshall

Contracorriente by Javier Fuentes-León

Una Hora Más en Canarias by David Serrano

I Love You, Philip Morris by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa

Iron Man 2 by Jon Favreau

Lope by Andrucha Waddington

Mother and Child by Rodrigo García

Tron: Legacy by Joseph Kosinski

Valentine's Day by Garry Marshall

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger by Woody Allen

The bad ones

Cyrus by Jay and Mark Duplass

Date Night by Shwan Levy

Herois by Pau Freixas

The Tourist by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

The awfulness made film

Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burton

Clash of the Titans by Louis Leterrier

Dear John by Lasse Hallström

Estació de l'Oblit by Christian Molina and Sandra Serna

The Last Airbender by M. Night Shyamalan (my pick for worst film of the year)

Robin Hood by Ridley Scott

END OF THE NCFA 2010!

The Noah Castle Film Awards (Part V: The Winners)

Finally, almost a month after the Oscars, I'm handing out my metaphorical trophies, the Noecitos! It's been so hard to choose even semi-cheating as I've done but I think it's an easy guess to say which are my two favorite films of the year...

Best Ensemble: The Social Network

Breakthrough Actor: Miles Teller in Rabbit Hole

Breakthrough Actress: Mila Kunis in Black Swan

Best Supporting Actor: Andrew Garfield in The Social Network

Best Supporting Actress: Mila Kunis in Black Swan

Best Leading Actor: Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network

Best Leading Actress: Natalie Portman in Black Swan

Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network

Best Original Screenplay: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin for Black Swan

Best Director: Ex Aequo 

Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan and David Fincher for The Social Network

Best Picture: Black Swan

The Noah Castle Film Awards (Part IV: The Acting Nominations)

If you want to, you can already see the nominations for my acting awards!! There is no commentary this time because I start writing and it is ok for a while but before I notice it, I'm writing commonplaces such as "she really embodies the character" or "she is the character" or "she really knows how to eat cheese" etc... So, no commentary! And besides, this is more Oscary-like, something I'm REALLY concerned about and that is why I'm using this post to do something that the AMPAS does... Choosing runner-ups!! (CHEAT FACTOR: Every category was supposed to have 5 runner-ups. Best Actress has 6. Deal with it! Since we are on the topic of cheating I should warn you that the breakthrough nominees are numerous in the case of the boys and very numerous in the case of the ladies...)

Runner-ups for Best Supporting Actor

Pierce Brosnan as Adam Lang in The Ghost Writer

Andrew Garfield as Tommy in Never Let Me Go

Rhys Ifans as Ivan Schrank in Greenberg

Richard Jenkins as The Father in Let Me In

Michael Lonsdale as Luc in Of Gods and Men

Runner-ups for Best Supporting Actress

Marion Cotillard as Mal in Inception

Shirley Henderson as Joy in Life During Wartime

Melissa Leo as Alice Ward in The Fighter

Jacki Weaver as Smurf in Animal Kingdom

Olivia Williams as Ruth Lang in The Ghost Writer

Runner-ups for Best Actor

Javier Bardem as Uxbal in Beautiful

Jim Broadbent as Tom in Another Year

James Franco as Aaron Rolston in 127 Hours

Ben Stiller as Roger Greenberg in Greenberg

Mark Wahlberg as Micky Ward in The Fighter

Runner-ups for Best Actress

Annette Bening as Nic in The Kids Are All Right

Juliette Binoche as Elle/She in Copie Conforme

Greta Gerwig as Florence in Greenberg

Yoon Jeong-hee as Mija in Poetry

Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi in I Am Love

Natasha Yarovenko as Natasha in Room in Rome 

COMING SOON: The Winners!!

The Noah Castle Film Awards (Part III: The Big Awards Nominations)

Truth be told, the nominations have been uploaded on the main page for almost two weeks but with the Oscars, life and similar stuff I have not had the time or the will to comment... But I'm back! 

I wanted to use this post as an explanation to the question that must be burning in your minds... Why don't I give technical awards? Well, it is, as the best explanations in life, simple and embarrassing. I don't understand them. Well, I can talk of the costumes of a movie, I can discuss the make-up and I can appreciate cinematography and more or less I understand what editing means. 

But when it comes to aural categories I'm at a loss. I have the worst ear ever to identify scores because, for some reason, they don't register in my brain. I don't even know what the difference between sound and sound editing is so I think it would be hypocritical (not to say complicated) to give awards for those categories. I promise I'm going to learn about the technical aspects in film so I can include the categories in the next NCFA's. Nevertheless I have to say that I saw how wonderful the cinematography, costumes, make up and visual effects are in Black Swan, how great the score and the cinematography are in The Social Network, 

how gorgeous are the cinematography and costumes of I am Love 

and how good the make-up in Splice is. By the way, a special award for best costume design should have gone to Natasha Yarovenko's parents for creating that "suit".

A category I would like to comment further is Original Song because the four nominees at the Oscars were awful and tremendously boring. The following songs would have made my list had I made such a category:

"Sticks and Stones" by Jónsi for How to Train your Dragon

"Loving Strangers" by Russian Red for Room in Rome

"Kick Ass" by Mika for Kick-Ass

And speaking of sexy young man with curly hair, here is Xavier Dolan, one of my three runner-ups for Best Director of the year. 

The other two, in case you don't recognize them, are Sofia Coppola and John Cameron Mitchell. The three do a great job at directing their respective films but some of them had to stay out...

Coming soon: Acting Awards!!