Lists. Vue Weekly.

"2006 was another year where I spent too much time biting my lip and rolling my eyes while overbearing would-be pundits whined about how much today's movies suck or how everyone's going to unanimously abandon theatres once we can all hunker around our computers and see Pirates of the Caribbean the microsecond the thing is finished," writes Josef Braun, introducing his list of 14 bests (in no particular order). "Who knows, maybe movies really are dying, but the news doesn't seem to have reached the filmmakers behind the memorable, provocative, resonant, diverting or just plain brilliant works listed alone or in clusters below."

Brian Gibson's list is in order, but not an order you might expect. They're "grouped-by-mood for that imaginary day when you could watch all 10 without stopping," from The New World at dawn to The Science of Sleep at midnight. Nicely done.

At any rate, the current issue of Edmonton's Vue Weekly, like the Austin Chronicle, is shot through with lists and looks back throughout its various sections.

Posted by dwhudson at January 4, 2007 11:48 AM