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The 1,000 Greatest Films | January 2010 Version
 
Beyond the Canon: 100 Films Deserving of Greater Attention  Sight & Sound's DVDs of 2009 & Films of 2009  Film Comment's End-of-Year Critics' Poll
● Sight & Sound's 30 Key Films of the Decade ● Senses of Cinema's World Poll  DVD Beaver's DVD and Blu-Ray of the Year
 
 
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One of the greats... Eric Rohmer 1920-2010
Eric Rohmer 1920-2010
  See Dave Kehr's obituary in The New York Times, and Geoff Andrew's in Time Out. Also, for more articles on the passing, at the age of 89, of this genius French filmmaker (and film critic), Google News is a good place to start.  
 
Recent Viewings
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: "Ballast"
  ° BALLAST (2008/USA) Lance Hammer HR Metacritic  
  ° REPRISE (2006/Norway) Joachim Trier A Metacritic  
  ° BRÜNO (2009/USA-UK) Larry Charles W Metacritic  
  ° NOT ON THE LIPS (PAS SUR LA BOUCHE) (2003/France-Switzerland) Alain Resnais A Village Voice (Michael Atkinson)  
  ° TROPICAL MALADY (2004/France-Thailand-Germany-Italy-Switzerland) Apichatpong Weerasethakul W Metacritic  
  ° AN EDUCATION (2008/UK-USA) Lone Scherfig W Sight & Sound  
  ° ANVIL!: THE STORY OF ANVIL (2008/USA) Sacha Gervasi W Metacritic  
  ° BRIGHT STAR (2009/UK-Australia) Jane Campion HR Metacritic  
  ° SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009/USA) Guy Ritchie Metacritic  
  ° THE STORY OF G.I. JOE (1945/USA) William Wellman W Images Journal  
  ° THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (2009/Sweden-Denmark-Germany) Niels Arden Oplev A IMDB External Reviews  
  ° TWO LOVERS (2008/USA-France) James Gray R Metacritic  
  ° FULL MOON IN PARIS (1984/France) Eric Rohmer R Senses of Cinema  
  ° 5 AGAINST THE HOUSE (1955/USA) Phil Karlson W TCM  
  ° UP IN THE AIR (2009/USA) Jason Reitman W Metacritic  
  ° KISS ME KATE (1954/USA) George Sidney W Bright Lights Film Journal  
  °  STROMBOLI (1949/Italy) Roberto Rossellini R Fred Camper  
  ° THE HEADLESS WOMAN (2008/Argentina-France-Italy-Spain) Lucrecia Martel R Metacritic  
   ° BROKEN EMBRACES (2009/Spain-UK) Pedro Almodóvar R Metacritic  
   ° WICHITA (1955/USA) Jacques Tourneur R Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)  
  ° BRAINSTORM (1965/USA) William Conrad W Ozu's World Movie Reviews  
  ° BLACKMAIL IS MY LIFE (1968/Japan) Kinji Fukasaku W DVD Savant Review  
  ° ZOMBIELAND (2009/USA) Ruben Fleischer A Metacritic  
  ° FANTASTIC MR. FOX (2009/USA) Wes Anderson HR Metacritic  
  ° TELL NO ONE (2006/France) Guillaume Canet A Metacritic  
 

HR = Highly Recommended (masterpiece/near-masterpiece); R = Recommended (very good); W = Worth a Look (good); A = Approach with Caution (average; not great, but not a disaster); D = Dud (A disaster).

 
  You can view all of our film recommendations here.  
 
   
Recommended Reading 
The Guardian... Wolf Man, Dracula and the beasts that gave birth to cinematic horror (David Thomson).
February 2010
° The Guardian Wolf Man, Dracula and the beasts that gave birth to cinematic horror.
° Bright Lights Film Journal Val Lewton's Symbolic Statuary.
° Senses of Cinema Brother Feeney: Francis Ford.
° The Boston Phoenix Karen Schmeer: 1970-2010.
° Cineaste The Battle Inside: Infection and the Modern Horror Film.
° Cinema-Scope Songs of Innocence & Experience: Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson and the Post-Boomer Construction of Childhood.
° CineScene Eric Rohmer: An Appreciation.
° Film Comment Terra Incognita: 19 unknown pleasures from around the world to look out for.
° Film International In Memoriam: Robin Wood.
° Future Movies Richard Linklater Q&A: The ace indie director discusses casting Orson Welles, directing Zac Efron and making music with Jools Holland.
Previous recommended reading.
 
The Shooting Gallery
...Or the 100 Most Fortunate Actors in Film History?
The Shooting GalleryThe Shooting GalleryThe Shooting Gallery
Who are the most important film actors of all-time? Is it those who had the biggest star-power, those who won the most awards or accolades, those who grabbed the most headlines? Or, was it those performers who actually worked - for whatever reason - with the best filmmakers and subsequently ended up appearing in many of the screen's finest films? 
See what They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? think, and prepare to be mildly surprised with some of our inclusions and also by many of our omissions. (Last Updated during December 2008).
 
 

 

 
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Bad Girls of Film Noir (Volumes 1  & 2) Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films By Pedro Chantal Akerman in the Seventies (Eclipse Series 19)
The Exiles The Sam Fuller Film Collection Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber
Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954 Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! The William Castle Film Collection (13 Frightened Girls / 13 Ghosts / Homicidal / Strait-Jacket / The Old Dark House / Mr. Sardonicus / The Tingler / Zotz!)
Husbands (Extended Cut) Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir- Criterion Collection Philippe Garrel x 2 (Two-Disc Set)
Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Volume Three The Film Noir Collection: Volume 1
 

End-of-Decade Lists
A Noughty Contender: Wong Kar-Wai's "In the Mood for Love"
Another ten celluloid-drenched years have passed us by. Gosh, where did my hair go? To commemorate, we thought it would be nice to collate some end-of-decade film lists (2000-2009) in one handy spot. So, here we are. A reminder that you can view our own 21st Century list here.
Ain't it Cool News Mr. Beaks presents his top 100 films of the decade!
Jeffrey M. Anderson (Combustible Celluloid) The decade in review.
At the Movies (Michael Phillips and A.O. Scott) Best of the decade top 10.
Michael Atkinson (Zero for Conduct) The top 50 films of the decade.
The A.V. Club The best films of the '00s. Plus, almost the best films of the '00s: orphans and personal favorites.
James Berardinelli (Reel Views) Closing out the decade with another top 10.
Bloody Disgusting 00's retrospect: Bloody Disgusting's top 20 films of the decade.
Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian) The top 10 key films of the noughties.
Richard Brody (The New Yorker) Best of the decade.
Ty Burr (Boston Globe) Top films of the decade.
The Canadian Press Memento, Mulholland Drive among Canadian Press film favourites of 2000s.
Channel 4 Film Top 50 best films of the decade.
Cinema Tropical Poll Lucrecia Martel's 'La Ciénaga' elected best Latin-American movie of the decade.
Chicago Tribune AP critics David Germain and Christy Lemire pick favorite films of the decade.
Columbus Alive Decade in review: top 100 movies.
Complex Lucrecia Martel's 'La Ciénaga' elected best Latin-American movie of the decade.
David Denby (The New Yorker) The best films of the decade.
Mike D'Angelo (Listen Eggroll) My top 101 films of the decade. Plus, the Skandies decade recap.
dGenerate Films The best Chinese-language films of the 2000s.
Dublin Film Critics Circle Adam & Paul and Hunger are Irish films of the decade for Dublin critics.
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) The best films of the decade.
Entertainment Weekly The 10 best of the decade.
Fantastic Voyages The 100 films of the decade
Film Comment David Lynch, P.T. Anderson, David Cronenberg, Wong Kar Wai top Film Comment's 150 best films of the decade.
Flicks The top 50 films of the decade.
Filmmaker The 25 best American independent films of the decade.
Owen Gleiberman (Entertainment Weekly) 10 best movies of the decade.
The Guardian 100 best films of the noughties.
Kirk Honeycutt (Hollywood Reporter) Top 10 movies of the decade.
indieWIRE Best of the decade critics survey 2000s.
The Irish Times There will be rows: Donald Clarke’s top 20 films.
Glenn Kenny (Some Came Running) My seventy greatest films of the decade.
Let Mot du Cinephiliaque (Blog) Les meilleurs films de la dernière décennie top 100 2000-2009.
Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle) Top films of the decade.
Metacritic The best (and worst) movies of the decade.
Shawn Levy (The Oregonian) The best of the naughts: top films of the decade.
Wesley Morris (Boston Globe) Top films of the decade.
NOW Magazine (Toronto) Top 10 films.
Paste Magazine The 50 best movies of the decade.
Paste Magazine The 25 best documentaries of the decade.
Popdose The best 100 movies of the decade.
Reverse Shot Best of the decade.
SciFi Squad The best science fiction films of the decade.
Richard Roeper & the Movies The 100 best movies of the decade.
A.O Scott (New York Times) Movies of Influence and Movies of Quality.
Sight & Sound 30 key films of the decade. Intro here.
The Sunday Times (Times Online) The best films of the decade.
Slate The Aught-omatic: An interactive guide to all the "best movies of the decade" lists.
The Telegraph The 100 films that defined the noughties.
Time Out London 101 films of the decade.
Time Out New York Top 50 movies of the decade.
Times Online The 100 best films of the decade.
Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque Thai film tops TIFF list of decade's best.
Total Film Our top ten films of the decade.
Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) Peter Travers' 10 best movies of the decade.
TSPDT Recommended Viewing (2000s).
Village Voice Film Poll Best of decade.

 

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