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From Year One On: Ranking 16 Movies Named After Years

From Year One On: Ranking 16 Movies Named After Years

As we trudge into the fourth week of 2012 -- one of those all-too-rare years that influenced a movie title -- a question arises: What's the best film named after a year? The worst? Because it went so well the last time we tried something like this, let's give it another shot:
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Tony Scott, Brian Helgeland to Remake Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch

Tony Scott, Brian Helgeland to Remake Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch

Fans of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, steel yourself: The guy who last put Denzel Washington on top of a runaway train (and made bank at the box office doing so) wants to remake the groundbreaking 1969 Western. Deadline reports that director Tony Scott -- whose most recent film was last year's Unstoppable -- is negotiating to reboot the classic Peckinpah film. He also wants to remake his own Top Gun, so clearly nothing is sacred. Read the news after the jump and weep into your cowboy boots.

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Roger Deakins Plays My Favorite Scene: 'It's Totally Chilling... and Quite Brilliant'

Roger Deakins Plays My Favorite Scene: 'It's Totally Chilling... and Quite Brilliant'

Much of the emotional power of Joel and Ethan Coen's Best Picture contender True Grit comes from the contributions of longtime collaborator and nine-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins, a cinematographer whose compositions and visual choices lend the Western a subtle, nostalgic quality. It's fitting, then, that when Deakins played My Favorite Scene with Movieline recently, he pointed toward a film that also utilizes the understated to great -- but very different -- effect.

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