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13/01/2007

Las 10 mejores películas de 2006

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Entre las numerosas y variadas listas de "mejores películas" de 2006 que circulan por la red, sin lugar a dudas me quedo con "Our pick of the films of 2006", hecha por el staff de MercatorNet.com.

Esta publicación on-line está tan en las antípodas geográficas (Australia, Nueva Zelanda), como en las proximidades de sensibilidad cinematográfica de quien esto escribe. Gracias al equipo editorial de MercatorNet por hacer esta selección, que yo no me hubiera atrevido a plantear.

No es fácil lograr un equilibrio entre los criterios de selección utilizados: equilibrio entre verdadero entretenimiento, profundos valores humanos e indudable mérito artístico. En este caso se ha logrado una muestra que responde a tan exigente combinación, pensando, no sólo las películas que están aquí, como en las que no están.

Cierto que siempre hay matices, como bien sabe Michael Cook, Editor de MercatorNet, con quien compartí mesa, mantel y gran conversación, hace meses, en un ristorante del centro histórico romano... Pero dejemos los matices para otra ocasión.

La lista es ésta, en orden alfabético
. En MercatorNet, además de razonar de modo breve y claro la elección, hay un enlace de cada película con su lugar en Amazon.com. Aquí, en Scriptor, prefiero poner en los títulos un enlace con la información correspondiente en imdb.com.

En culaquier caso, recomiendo vivamente consultar en MercatorNet las razones que les llevaron a elegir cada una de estas películas:

Cave_yellowdog
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Directed by Byambasuren Davaa. Starring Nansal Batchuluun, Urjindorj Batchuluun.

It may be chauvinism and Eurocentric ignorance, but one does not expect a lot from the Mongolian film industry. However,...

ChildrenofmenChildren of Men
Directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Starring Clive Owen, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Michael Caine, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Ejiofor.

This brilliantly directed film deals with two themes: world-wide infertility and the Bush foreign policy agenda...

HiddenbladeThe Hidden Blade
Directed by Yoji Yamada. Starring Takako Matsu, Masatoshi Nagase, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Hidetaka Yoshioka.

Yoji Yamada's 2002 film Twilight Samurai was an Oscar nominee, and The Hidden Blade, the second in a proposed trilogy, is nearly its equal. Sociologically, the theme is the confrontation of...

 

LadyinthewaterLady in the Water
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright, Bill Irwin, Bob Balaban.

This modern fairy tale was panned by some critics as self-indulgent mythmaking by director M. Night Shyamalan, but others loved it...

Neuntetag
Der Neunte Tag (The Ninth Day)
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. Starring Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl.

Based loosely on a true story, this is a story about conscience and courage. Father Henri Kremer has been imprisoned in Dachau for opposing the Nazi regime...

ThequeenThe Queen
Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, Alex Jennings, Helen McCrory, Roger Allam.

One of the most mysterious events of the 1990s was the torrent of world grief over the death of Diana, Princess of Wales...

Pirates2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Directed by Gore Verbinski. Starring Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Tom Hollander, Bill Nighy.

Successful sequels are rare. Sequels which better the original are as scarce as doubloons in a charity box...

SophieschollSophie Scholl: The Final Days
Directed by Marc Rothemund. Starring Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held, Johanna Gastdorf.

Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to life in a luminous performance by Julia Jentsch. In 1943, a group of college students...

SyrianaSyriana
Directed by Stephen Gaghan. Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Amanda Peet, Christopher Plummer, Alexander Siddig, Mazhar Munir.

Would you expect to see George Clooney in a neo-con shoot-em-up? Probably not. This cynical look at American involvement in the Middle East highlights corruption, complexity and cruelty in the West's engagement with the Arab world...

Tsotsi
Tsotsi
Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Kenneth Nkosi, Zenzo Ngqobe.

This moving South African film won the Best Foreign Film award at last year's Oscars. It is the story of the conversion and redemption...

United93United 93
Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring J. J. Johnson, Gary Commock, Polly Adams, Opal Alladin, Nancy McDoniel, Starla Benford, Trish Gates, Simon Poland, Khalid Abdalla, David Alan Basche, Lisa Colón-Zayas, Meghan Heffern, Olivia Thirlby, Cheyenne Jackson.

United 93 provoked a silly discussion about the proper moment for commencing 9/11 retrospectives. But if ever there was a tasteful way to approach this catastrophe, this is it.

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Comentarios

Sophie Scholl, no es -al menos- del 2005? (yo pensaba que era aún más antigua)

Tienes razón, Marta. Está producida en el 05, pero la distribución general (cuando la hemos visto la mayoría de quienes la hemos visto) ha sido en 2006.

Esto pasa con las películas "pequeñas". Funciona el "boca a oreja" entre la gente y realmente se ven poco a poco y más tarde del momento de estreno (legal).

Otro cordial saludo desde París.

ah, entiendo, gracias x tu respuesta!

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