If you think most blogs which talk about movies are listing too many top ten films list, I will tell you this: They are good for hits!
My friend New York critic/filmmaker Bilge Ebiri was one of the participants in this year's critics list for "Film Comment." Others included filmmakers Paul Schrader and Guy Maddin as well as distinguished critics like Amy Taubin, Graham Fuller and J. Hoberman as well the always interesting Nathan Lee of "The Village Voice" (see earlier entry).
One of the more interesting lists was from Maddin, who is the best thing to come out of Winnipeg, Canada since the cult band The Crash Test Dummies. He had two westerns, "The Assasination of Jesse James...." (#24) and "3:10 to Yuma" (#47) as his one-two films respectively.
I thought it was interesting that three of the ranked films, "The Bourne Ultimatum," (#31), "Ratatoille" (#21) and "Superbad" (#44) actually played at the Eden Drive-In in Eden, NC.
My friend Blake Lipscomb, back in Roanoke, told me that "3:10 to Yuma" made it to Hull's Drive-In in Lexington, Va.
My favorite film of the year "The Darjeeling Limited" was #39, (it finished in "FC" editor Gavin Smith's top five) but Ebiri's top choice the Iranian film "Offside" came in higher at #18. My friend and fellow blogger Moviezzz is an admirer of the Irish musical film "Once" (which I have not seen!). It came it at #32.
Two of the films, "Juno" (#33) and "Atonement" (#43) are currently playing at the Grandin Theatre in Roanoke.
Here are the top ten films:
1. "No Country for Old Men" (Joel and Ethan Coen, U.S.)
2. "There Will Be Blood" (P.T. Anderson, U.S)
3. "Zodiac" (David Fincer, US)
4. "Syndromes and a Century" (A. Weererasethakul, Thailand)
5. "I'm Not There" (Todd Haynes, US)
6. "Killer Sheep" (Charles Burnett, US)- this film was actually made in the '70s, but not released until this year.
7. "Lady Chatterley" (Pascale Ferran, France/Belgium)
8. "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" (Cristian Munglu, Romania)
9. "Eastern Promises" (David Cronenberg, UK/Canada).
10. "Colossal Youth" (Pedro Costa, France)
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