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2004 CINEMATHEQUE AWARDS

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WINNERS HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD

BEST POSTER DESIGN
Dogville Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind Fahrenheit 9/11 Maria Full of Grace Sideways Primer

BEST TAG LINE
Dogville Kill Bill, Volume 2 Primer The Saddest Music in The World Shaun of the Dead I ♥ Huckabees
"A quiet little town not far from here" "Kill is Love" "What happens if it actually works?" "If you're sad, and like beer, I'm your lady." "A romantic comedy. With zombies" "An Existential Comedy."

BEST QUOTE OR LINE READING
Anthony Hopkins
in
Alexander		 Naomi Watts
in
I ♥ Huckabees		 David Sullivan
in
Primer		 Paul Giamatti
in
Sideways		 Kirsten Dunst
in
Spider-Man 2		 Nicole Kidman
in
Dogville
"It was said later that Alexander was never defeated in his lifetime, except by Hephaistion's thighs." "Fuckabees!" "I'm starving. I haven't eaten since later this afternoon." "I'm not drinking any fucking Merlot!" "Go get 'em Tiger." "Dogville is a place the world could do without."

BEST CREDITS SEQUENCE
Bad Education Blissfully Yours Dawn of the Dead Dogville Spider-Man 2 The Life & Death of Peter Sellers
The opening credits are like Almadovar channeling Hitchcock Ya gotta love a film that abruptly brings on the opening credits 45 minutes into the film Creepy-assed frenetic editing at both ends of the film The closing credits pan as we see the horror of America (and the world)

see also: Best use of a pre-existing song category		 It opens just like a comic book would (and should) Retro sixties art nouveau

BEST TRAILER
Bad Education Dawn of The Dead Dogville Kill Bill, Volume 2 Primer I ♥ Huckabees

BEST HOMAGE / TRIBUTE
Birth Dogville Goodbye Dragon Inn Kill Bill, Volume 2 Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow Young Adam
an ode to Polanski's Rosemary's Baby - just supplant Satan with a ten year old reincarnation of your long dead spouse an ode to Wilder's "Our Town"

in body, if not soul		 an ode (of course) to the original Dragon Inn

and to the Cinema of old as well		 an ode to Chop-Socky Kung-Fu of the seventies AND the spaghetti western ideals of Sergio Leone an ode to DC Comics, those old serials, HG Wells, Orson Welles, Art Deco, Godzilla, Flash Gordon, Indiana Jones, Howard Hawks, Film Noir, German Expressionism, Murnau, Kate Hepburn, Cary Grant, Superman... an ode to one of the greatest films ever made...

Jean Vigo's L'Atalante

BEST COMEBACK
Thomas Haden Church
in
Sideways		 Zhang Yimou
for
Hero & House of Flying Daggers		 Virginia Madsen
in
Sideways		 Mark Wahlberg
in
I ♥ Huckabees		 Tian Zhuangzhuang
for directing
Springtime in a Small Town		 The Living Dead
in
Dawn of the Dead
and
Shaun of the Dead
It took just a mere 9 years to go from quitting Wings to becoming a star again After a decade or so of less-than-steller films, Zhang comes back to his early day auteur style The up-and-coming queen of the eighties B-movie scene finally makes good Who knew Marky mark could be this damn funny !? Silenced for a decade by Red China, due to his leftist politics... Okay, maybe Zombies made a comeback in 2003 with 28 Days Later, but here they are in full force (as both drama and comedy)

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A BAD MOVIE / FEMALE
Sandrine Bonnaire
in
Intimate Strangers		 Maggie Gyllenhaal
in
Criminal		 Daryl Hannah
in
Silver City		 Jennifer Jason Leigh
in
The Machinist		 Tea Leoni
in
Spanglish		 Laura Linney
in
Kinsey

BEST PERFORMANCE IN A BAD MOVIE / MALE
Javier Bardem
in
The Sea Inside		 Christian Bale
in
The Machinist		 Chris Cooper
in
Silver City		 Billy Crudup
in
Stage Beauty		 Rhys Ifans
in
Vanity Fair		 Kevin Kline
in
De-Lovely

BEST OVERALL SCENE / 12 NOMINEES
EXCLUDING ANY SCENES ALREADY MENTIONED
Dogville
The Hummel breaking scene		 Kill Bill, Volume 2
Bill makes a baloney sandwich, with a really big knife scene		 Infernal Affairs
The tap tap tap signalling scene		 Birth
Anna goes to the opera and finally realizes the truth (sort of) scene		 Hotel Rwanda
Paul tries to tie his tie scene		 House of Flying Daggers
The Echo game scene
Sideways
Miles and Maya talk about Pinot scene		 The Time of The Wolf
Fire in the darkness and/or torches from afar scene		 The Life Aquatic
A tour of the Belefonte scene		 Closer
The striptease scene and/or the cyber sex scene		 Spider-Man 2
The retro, expressionistic, shadowed, Murnau-like Doc Ock hospital killing scene		 Goodbye Dragon Inn
Her lonely trek up those long long steps scene

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