Weekend lists.

So the Academy's whittled its list of contenders for Best Foreign Language Film down to a lean and manageable 61. The best way to browse this round is to head to Nathaniel R's excellent chart, with its links, synopses and various countries' histories with Oscar all laid out perfectly clearly. Anne Thompson: "Here's my sense of the top ten contenders based on festival buzz and reviews." At Twitch, Todd takes a look at the five entries from Arab countries.

"I'm going to watch every last DVD in the Criterion Collection." Matthew Dessem is now up to #61, Monty Python's Life of Brian.

The Independent presents "the best (and worst) lines in the history of film," which seems to be an extract from Paul Wellings's Sex, Lines and Videotape: Famous Film Quotes.

At the AV Club, Tasha Robinson lists "8 Films Illustrating That Oral Sex And Cars Don't Mix."

ScreenGrab offers an annotated list of "five movies in which magic, real magic, is awesome."

At Twitch, Toffy's got a list of the top Thai films at the box office so far this year.

Online viewing tip. YouTube's on Slate's collective mind. Paul Boutin offers a "video history," basically nine greatest hits; Josh Levin explains how YouTube "reveal[s] what we're losing when we watch games on television"; and Troy Patterson: "Web video is the ideal medium for a world populated by instinctual exhibitionists who double as full-time voyeurs."

Posted by dwhudson at October 21, 2006 8:14 AM