There is no nice way to put it: I am obsessed with film. I'm currently working my way through both the
New York Times
Best 1000 Movies List
and the titles in the book
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
. It's slow going. I also discovered a
list of interesting movies
on
Slant
, and an
alternative doubled canon
. I hope to be mostly finished before I'm 45, but that may be an optimistic assessment.
Some of the most interesting reading about film on the web:
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott at
The New York Times
.
Roger Ebert
.
David Edelstein at
New York Magazine
.
Scott Foundas at
L.A. Weekly
.
There's also some good reading over at
The Onion A.V. Club
.
If you're interested, here are my top 10 movies of all-time. I'm also including some of my lists of notable (read: A- or A) films in alphabetical order. Enjoy.
All-time top 10
1.
Chinatown (1974)
2.
Rear Window (1954)
3.
City Lights (1931)
4.
Vertigo (1958)
5.
Citizen Kane (1941)
6.
Raging Bull (1980)
7.
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
8.
Tokyo Story (1953)
9.
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
10.
The General (1926)
Notable lists
2009
2008
Inglorious Basterds
The Class
Sugar
Glory at Sea
Man on Wire
Wall-E
Wendy and Lucy
2007
2006
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Children of Men
Juno
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Michael Clayton
Deliver Us From Evil
No Country for Old Men
Half Nelson
Persepolis
Letters from Iwo Jima
Ratatouille
Pan's Labyrinth
There Will
Be Blood
Stranger than Fiction
Zodiac
Volver
2005
2004
Brokeback Mountain
Before Sunset
Broken Flowers
The Door in the Floor
Caché
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Century of the Self
House of Flying Daggers
The Constant Gardener
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Million Dollar Baby
Grizzly Man
Sideways
A History of Violence
Spider-Man 2
The Holy Girl
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, ..., and Spring
King Kong
The Matador
Memories of Murder
Munich
Mysterious Skin
Pride & Prejudice
The Squid and the Whale
Syriana
Tony Takitani
2003
2002
American Splendor
Adaptation
Capturing the Friedmans
All or Nothing
Cold Mountain
Far from Heaven
Finding Nemo
Insomnia
The Fog of War
Late Marriage
Kill Bill Volume 1
Monsoon Wedding
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Quiet American
Lost in Translation
Talk to Her
The Man Without a Past
What Time is it There?
Mystic River
Y Tu Mamá También
Raising Victor Vargas
Stevie
To Be and To Have
The Triplets of Belleville
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