DECEMBER 14TH, 2009. MY TOP 50 FROM THIS DECADE.. | ARCHIVE

Films that is..

I make music, but i'm a fan of films. That's the way it goes. When I didn't make music, I used to follow the new lp releases fervently, but i'll leave that for you to do now, and like an old codger, i'll spy on your top 50 music releases to see what's hot!

This is meant to be a friendly unthreatening sort of a list. I just put down the ones i had watched the most, but i think there's some great ones there, and i'd like to thank everyone involved in the making of these films for doing such a good job. My last 10 years would have been much impoverished without these! (and the other 25 that are floating around just outside)

I could say a lot about each one of these, but i'm meant to be doing other homework just now, so i'll just list them, BEST FIRST.

There is obviously plenty i didn't see these past 10 years,(haven't seen the new Tarantino yet, or the new Coens) and some of you may call me an asshole for perceived "inconsistencies", but something lead me to see all these films and docs, and i've come to love them all in time.

And no, Starsky and Hutch isn't a mistake. And The Aviator is a totally smoking picture. And Gosford Park is just perfect.




1 Gosford Park
2 Amélie
3   L o s t   i n   T r a n s l a t i o n
4 O Brother, Where Art Thou?    
5 E t e r n a l   S u n s h i n e   o f   t h e   S p o t l e s s   M i n d     
6 The Royal Tenenbaums
7 The Squid and the Whale        
8 Almost Famous        
9 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring    
10 In the Mood for Love
11 Secretary
12 Sideways
13 Charlie Wilson's War
14 The Son's Room    
15 No Country for Old Men
16 Mulholland Drive    
17 Talk to Her    
18 Ghost World
19 T h e   A v i a t o r
20 Persepolis                            
21 Burn After Reading        
22 Me and You and Everyone We Know    
23 The Devil and Daniel Johnston
24 Munich        
25 Milk
26 Frost/Nixon    
27 Lust, Caution    
28 Man on Wire
29 Michael Clayton
30 Donnie Darko
31 Somersault
32 T h e   L i f e   A q u a t i c   w i t h   S t e v e   Z i s s o u
33 City of God    
34 T h e   L o r d   o f   t h e   R i n g s :   T h e   R e t u r n   o f   t h e   K i n g
35 The Lives of Others    
36 I'm Not There    
37  G a r d e n   S t a t e     
38 Control    
39 Best in Show
40 Amores Perros    
41 There Will Be Blood    
42 A m e r i c a n   S p l e n d o r     
43 C l o s e r
44 Adventureland 
45 The Kite Runner    
46 Doubt
47 S t a r s k y   &   H u t c h     
48 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls    
49 Brokeback Mountain
50 High Fidelity

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