Lists, 1/9.

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?, already maintaining a list of "The 1000 Greatest Films," is currently working on a list to be called "The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films." In the meantime, they've got an "Unlucky 13 favourite films of 2005" list at the top of their homepage and 13 rediscoveries of the year as well.

Chris Shadoian imagines a top ten standoff with a happy ending in Popcorn Picnic at Flak.

"Movies come loaded these days, more like a cart than a gun." Anthony Lane looks back on 2005 in the New Yorker.

Cinemarati countdown watch: #12: Caché (acquarello argues the case - in the comments that follow as well); #11: Syriana (low iq canadian explains; Ed Gonzalez dissents); #10: Tropical Malady (jeff_v explains: "Apichatpong has created one of the most bold and visionary films of the decade, and also one of the more confounding"); and the year's ten best screenplays.

Movie City News has the National Society of Film Critics award-winners (the voting was evidently rather dramatic, as Susan King reports in the Los Angeles Times; Cinematical's Martha Fischer finds more drama; commentary: Chris Barsanti) and has updated the top ten scoreboard.

Anne Thompson lists her favorite Hollywood novels.

Dazzledent and Klenzrite are two of the ten imaginary brands New York Times advertising columnist Stuart Elliott recalls appearing in movies a few decades ago.

Posted by dwhudson at January 9, 2006 6:51 AM