Weekend lists.

As if the Cinematheque's "Top 10 Project" weren't interesting enough - and with individual contributors ranging from Chris Fujiwara to Jaspar Sharp to David Ehrenstein to Fred Camper and on and on, "interesting" is an understatement - at Cinemarati, aquarello doubles the fun by listing his ten favorite directors, a project which "proved to be more soul-searching that I thought, deeply rooted in something that reflects more on you as a person than on the filmmaker whose work appeals to you." Chiming in there: Dan Jardine, Nick Davis and Daniel Jensen.

That number, 15, is getting around. Girish takes a fresh approach, listing his favorite filmmakers and their films of the last 15 years.

Tom Hall picks six movies that scare him most. In Paper, Michael Jurin names his and, in the Seattle Times, Mark "Rotten" Rahner has a few Halloween rental suggestions.

A dictionary is a list of sorts. Following a pan of Jarhead, thoughts on King Kong running three hours (related: Anne Thompson in the Hollywood Reporter on the DVD) and on what sort of movie Munich may turn out to be, Jeffrey Wells previews The Film Snob's Dictionary, "an immaculate, whip-smart read," and excerpts eight entries, from "Farber, Manny" to "Sarris, Andrew."

That's via Ray Pride who, at Movie City Indie, points to anther list from the "Best of Nashville" issue of the Nashville Scene, where we find Jim Ridley's entry, "Best Chance to Put Nashville Filmmakers on the Globe: O'Salvation!."

The Telegraph picks its top twenty childrens' films; SF Said: "[G]reat children's cinema can move the mind as well as the heart." And Benjamin Secher asks a fifth grade class to make a list of their own.

Posted by dwhudson at October 29, 2005 3:54 PM