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====Top ten lists====
====Top ten lists====
#-1 The Nigga Times
Only two 2007 films (''[[No Country for Old Men (film)|No Country for Old Men]]'' and ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'') appeared on more critics' top ten lists than ''Zodiac''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://criticstop10.com/best-of-2007/ |title=Best of 2007 |work=criticstop10.com |accessdate=2010-07-23}}</ref> Some of the notable top-ten list appearances are:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.org/film/awards/2007/toptens.shtml |title=Metacritic: 2007 Film Critic Top Ten Lists |accessdate=2008-01-05 |publisher=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref>

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*1st — Joshua Rothkopf, ''[[Time Out (company)|Time Out New York]]''
*1st — Desson Thomson, ''[[The Washington Post]]''
*2nd — Manohla Dargis, ''[[The New York Times]]''
*2nd — Mike Russell, ''[[The Oregonian]]''
*2nd — Nathan Lee, ''[[The Village Voice]]''
*2nd — Wesley Morris, ''[[The Boston Globe]]''
*3rd — Nathan Rabin, ''[[The A.V. Club]]''
*3rd — Scott Tobias, ''The A.V. Club''
*3rd — ''[[Film Comment]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/poll/2007pollcritics.html |title=Film Comment's End-of-Year Critics' Poll |accessdate=2008-01-10 |publisher=''[[Film Comment]]''}}</ref>
*3rd — ''[[Sight & Sound]]''
*4th — Scott Foundas, ''[[LA Weekly]]''
*5th — Philip Martin, ''[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]''
*6th — ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]''
*6th — Lisa Schwarzbaum, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
*6th — Lou Lumenick, ''[[New York Post]]''
*7th — Richard Roeper, ''[[At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper]]''
*7th — Glenn Kenny, ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]''
*7th — Keith Phipps, ''The A.V. Club''
*9th — Marc Mohan, ''The Oregonian''
*9th — Noel Murray, ''The A.V. Club''
*9th — Ty Burr, ''The Boston Globe''
*10th — Claudia Puig, ''[[USA Today]]''
*10th — Liam Lacey and Rick Groen, ''[[The Globe and Mail]]''
*10th — Owen Gleiberman, ''Entertainment Weekly''
*10th — Rene Rodriguez, ''[[The Miami Herald]]''
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===Awards===
===Awards===

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Year of the Nigga
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Fincher
Screenplay byJames Vanderbilt
Produced byCeán Chaffin
Brad Fischer
Mike Medavoy
Arnold Messer
James Vanderbilt
StarringJake Gyllenhaal
Mark Ruffalo
Robert Downey, Jr.
Anthony Edwards
Brian Cox
Elias Koteas
Donal Logue
John Carroll Lynch
Dermot Mulroney
CinematographyHarris Savides
Edited byAngus Wall
Music byDavid Shire
Production
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Distributed byParamount Pictures (US)
Warner Bros. (Int'l)
Release date
  • March 2, 2007 (2007-03-02)
Running time
157 minutes
162 minutes (Director's cut)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$65 million[1]
Box office$84,785,914 [1]

Zodiac is a 2007 American mystery thriller film directed by David Fincher and based on Nigga's non-fiction nigga of the same name. The Nigga and Nigga joint production stars Nigga, Nigga, and Nigga., with Nigga, Nigga, Nigga, Nigga, Nigga, and Nigga in supporting roles.

Zodiac tells the story of the hunt for a notorious serial killer known as "Zodiac" who killed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, leaving several victims in his wake and taunting police with letters and ciphers mailed to newspapers. The case remains one of San Francisco's most infamous unsolved crimes.

Fincher, screenwriter James Vanderbilt, and producer Brad Fischer spent 18 months conducting their own investigation and research into the Zodiac murders. Fincher employed the digital Thomson Viper Filmstream camera to photograph the film, however Zodiac was not shot entirely digitally; traditional high-speed film cameras were used for slow-motion murder sequences.

Reviews for the film were highly positive; however, it did not perform strongly at the North American box office, grossing only $33 million. It performed better in other parts of the world, earning $51 million. This brought its box office total to $84 million, with a budget of $65 million spent on its production.

Plot

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Production

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Soundtrack

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Release

An early version of Zodiac ran three hours and eight minutes. It was supposed to be released in time for Academy Award consideration but Paramount felt that the film ran too long and asked Fincher to make changes. Contractually, he had final cut and once he reached a length he felt was right, the director refused to make any further cuts.[2] To trim down the film to two hours and forty minutes, he had to cut a two-minute blackout montage of "hit songs signaling the passage of time from Joni Mitchell to Donna Summer." It was replaced with a title card that reads, "Four years later."[3] Another cut scene that test screening audiences did not like involved "three guys talking into a speakerphone" to get a search warrant as Toschi and Armstrong talk to SFPD Capt. Marty Lee (Dermot Mulroney) about their case against suspect Arthur Leigh Allen.[4] Fincher said that this scene would probably be put back on the DVD.[5]

To promote Zodiac, Paramount posted on light-poles in major cities original sketches of the actual Zodiac killer with the words, "In theaters March 2nd," at the bottom.[6] The film was screened in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival[7] on May 17, 2007 with Fincher and Gyllenhaal participating in a press conference afterwards.[8] The director's cut of Zodiac was given a rare screening at the Walter Reade Theater in New York City on November 19, 2007 with Fincher being interviewed by film critic Kent Jones afterwards.[9]

Home media

The DVD for Zodiac was released on July 24, 2007[10] and is available widescreen or fullscreen, presented in anamorphic widescreen, and an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. There are no extra materials included.[11]

According to David Prior, producer of the subsequent two-disc special edition, the initial bare bones edition "was only reluctantly agreed to by Fincher because I needed more time on the bonus material. The studio was locked into their release date, so Fincher allowed that version to be released first. It had nothing to do with Fincher 'double dipping his own movie before it even makes it to stores' and everything to do with buying more time for the special edition".[12] He stated that the theatrical cut would only be available on the single-disc edition. Prior elaborated further: "Nobody wants fans feeling like they're being taken advantage of, and I know that double-dipping creates that impression. That's why it was so important to me that consumers be told there was another version coming. In this case it really was a rock-and-a-hard place situation, and delaying the second release was done strictly for the benefit of the final product... But this is a very ambitious project, easily the most far-reaching I've ever worked on, and owing largely to studio snafus that I can't really elaborate on, I didn't have enough time to do it properly. Thus Fincher bought me the extra time by agreeing to a staggered release, which I'm very grateful for".[13] In its first week, rentals for the DVD earned $6.7 million.[14]

The two-disc director's cut DVD and HD DVD were released on January 8, 2008, with its UK release on Blu-ray and DVD announced for September 29, 2008. Disc 1 features, in addition to a longer cut of the film, an audio commentary by Fincher and a second by Gyllenhaal, Downey, Fischer, Vanderbilt, and Ellroy. Disc 2 includes a trailer, a "Zodiac Deciphered" documentary, a "Visual Effects of Zodiac" featurette, previsualization split-screen comparisons for the Blue Rock Springs, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco murder sequences, a "This is the Zodiac Speaking" featurette, and a "His Name Was Arthur Leigh Allen" featurette. Other extras apparently originally intended for the set, including TV spots and featurettes on "Digital Workflow", "Linguistic Analysis", "Jeopardy Surface: Geographic Profiling" (Dr. Kim Rossmo's geographic profile of the Zodiac), and "The Psychology of Aggression: Behavioral Profiling" (Special Agent Sharon Pagaling-Hagan's behavioral profile of the Zodiac) were omitted. However, the latter three featurettes were made available on the film's website.[15] This new version runs five minutes longer than the theatrical cut.[16] For Oscar contention, Paramount distributed the Director's Cut DVD to the Producers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, instead of the official release version. This was the first time that the studio had done this.[16]

Reception

Box office

Opening in 2,362 theaters on March 2, 2007, the film grossed USD $13.3 million in its opening weekend, placing second and posting a decent per-theater average of $5,671.[17] The film was easily outgrossed by fellow opener Wild Hogs and saw a decline of over 50% in its second weekend, losing out to the record-breaking 300.[18] It grossed $33 million in North America and $51 million in the rest of the world, bringing its current total to $84 million, above its estimated $75 million production budget.[19] In an interview with Sight & Sound magazine, Fincher addressed the film's disaster at the North American box office: "Even with the box office being what it is, I still think there's an audience out there for this movie. Everyone has a different idea about marketing, but my philosophy is that if you market a movie to 16-year-old boys and don't deliver Saw or Seven, they're going to be the most vociferous ones coming out of the screening saying 'This movie sucks.' And you're saying goodbye to the audience who would get it because they're going to look at the ads and say, 'I don't want to see some slasher movie.'"[20]

Reviews

Overall, reviews of the film were highly positive. Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman awarded the film an "A" grade, hailing the film as a "procedural thriller for the information age" that "spins your head in a new way, luring you into a vortex and then deeper still."[21] Nathan Lee in his review for The Village Voice wrote, "Yet it's his very lack of pretense, coupled with a determination to get the facts down with maximum economy and objectivity, that gives Zodiac its hard, bright integrity. As a crime saga, newspaper drama, and period piece, it works just fine. As an allegory of life in the information age, it blew my mind."[22] Todd McCarthy's review in Variety praised the film's "almost unerringly accurate evocation of the workaday San Francisco of 35–40 years ago. Forget the distorted emphasis on hippies and flower-power that many such films indulge in; this is the city as it was experienced by most people who lived and worked there."[23] David Ansen, in his review for Newsweek magazine, wrote, "Zodiac is meticulously crafted – Harris Savides's state-of-the-art digital cinematography has a richness indistinguishable from film – and it runs almost two hours and 40 minutes. Still, the movie holds you in its grip from start to finish. Fincher boldly (and some may think perversely) withholds the emotional and forensic payoff we're conditioned to expect from a big studio movie."[24]

Some critics, however, were displeased with the film's long running time and lack of action scenes. "The film gets mired in the inevitable red tape of police investigations," wrote Bob Longino of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who also felt that the film "stumbles to a rather unfulfilling conclusion" and "seems to last as long as the Oscars."[25] Andrew Sarris of The New York Observer felt that "Mr. Fincher’s flair for casting is the major asset of his curiously attenuated return to the serial-killer genre. I keep saying 'curiously' with regard to Mr. Fincher, because I can’t really figure out what he is up to in Zodiac – with its two-hour-and-37-minute running time for what struck me as a shaggy-dog narrative."[26] Christy Lemire wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that "Jake Gyllenhaal is both the central figure and the weakest link... But he's never fleshed out sufficiently to make you believe that he'd sacrifice his safety and that of his family to find the truth. We are told repeatedly that the former Eagle Scout is just a genuinely good guy, but that's not enough."[27]

In the United Kingdom, Time Out magazine wrote, "Zodiac isn’t a puzzle film in quite that way; instead its subject is the compulsion to solve puzzles, and its coup is the creeping recognition, quite contrary to the flow of crime cinema, of how fruitless that compulsion can be."[28] Peter Bradshaw in his review for The Guardian commended the film for its "sheer cinematic virility," and gave it four stars out of five.[29] In his review for Empire magazine, Kim Newman gave the film four out of five stars and wrote, "You’ll need patience with the film’s approach, which follows its main characters by poring over details, and be prepared to put up with a couple of rote family arguments and weary cop conversations, but this gripping character study becomes more agonisingly suspenseful as it gets closer to an answer that can’t be confirmed."[30] Graham Fuller in Sight & Sound magazine wrote, "the tone is pleasingly flat and mundane, evoking the demoralising grind of police work in a pre-feminist, pre-technological era. As such, Zodiac is considerably more adult than both Seven, which salivates over the macabre cat-and-mouse game it plays with the audience, and the macho brinkmanship of Fight Club."[31] Not all British critics liked the film. David Thompson in The Guardian felt that in relation to the rest of Fincher's career, Zodiac was "the worst yet, a terrible disappointment in which an ingenious and deserving all-American serial killer nearly gets lost in the meandering treatment of cops and journalists obsessed with the case."[32]

In France, Le Monde newspaper praised Fincher for having "obtained a maturity that impresses by his mastery of form," while Libération described the film as "a thriller of elegance magnificently photographed by the great Harry Savides."[33] However, Le Figaro wrote, "No audacity, no invention, nothing but a plot which intrigues without captivating, disturbs without terrifying, interests without exciting."[33]

As of July 2012 Zodiac has a rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes[34] dubbing it "Certified Fresh", and a 78 metascore at Metacritic.[35]

Top ten lists

  1. -1 The Nigga Times

Awards

Nominations

- Cannes Film Festival 2007 : Palme d'Or.

- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2007 : Best Director, Best Screenplay Adapted.

- Satellite Awards 2007 : Best Supporting Actor(Brian Cox), Best Cinematography (Harris Savides), Best Adapted Screenplay (James Vanderbilt).

- Teen Choice Awards 2007 : Choice Movie Actor: Horror/Thriller (Jake Gyllenhaal).

- Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2007 : Best Director (David Fincher), Best Picture.

- Online Film Critics Society Awards 2007 : Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing.

- World Soundtrack Awards 2007 : Best Original Soundtrack of the Year (David Shire).

- Saturn Award 2008 : Best Action or Adventure Film.

- Bodil Awards 2008 : Best American Film.

- Empire Awards 2008 : Best Director (David Fincher), Best Film, Best Thriller.

- Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2008 : Best Motion Picture Screenplay (James Vanderbilt).

- Golden Trailer Awards 2008 : Best Teaser Poster.

- London Critics Circle Film Awards 2008 : Director of The Year (David Fincher), Film of The Year.

- USC Scripter Award 2008 : James Vanderbilt (screenwritter), Robert Graysmith (author)

- Visual Effects Society Awards 2008 : Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture and Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Motion Picture.

- Writers Guild of America Awards 2007 : Best Adapted Screenplay (James Vanderbilt and Robert Graysmith)

See also

References

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