Weekend lists.

The Cinemarati countdown is complete. Along with ten best performances and ten best directors, the Cinemarati have put Good Night, and Good Luck at #3 (MaryAnn Johanson explains), A History of Violence at #2 (Brian Darr explains; shimes dissents) and, at #1: Brokeback Mountain.

Bryant Frazer explains: "It's simply expert, big-hearted filmmaking in the grand tradition." Nick Davis dissents: "Audiences are invited at every turn to project a depth of passion and tragic romance that [Ang] Lee simply never substantiates."

Another list at Hollywood Bitchslap: Greg Ursic's annotated ten is in alphabetical order. Also: Chris Parry talks to Brian Raftery, who's written up Giant Magazine's list of the 50 greatest soundtracks of all time.

Updates: Matt Clayfield: "Unable to come up with any original ideas of my own, I'm stealing this one from Acquarello, whose recent pillow list of one hundred titles, 'like a pillow book entry, describes a temporal point of convergence - the films that are meaningful to me at this juncture - each a memory, a mnemonic, a biography, a resonance... to be taken with a grain of salt.' The same applies to my list."

"Chiming in a few weeks late on some favorite films of last year": Wendy Mitchell.

Posted by dwhudson at January 14, 2006 11:56 AM