Lists, 8/9.

Matt Zoller Seitz's latest "5 for the Day" at the House Next Door: "This one's not just about cameos - brief walk-ons in movies - but more specifically, cameos that add an intangible but palpable something to the films they grace."

"[W]hile the AFI List is regarded as overly stodgy, cliche-ridden and a bit-fuzzy on what is and isn't an American film, the OFC list is derided as being overly weighted toward more recent, less artistically ambitious, more 'populist' films which, not to put too fine a point on it, tend to be favored by young, heterosexual, Caucasian males in their 20s. The complainers have my sympathy." In fact, Bob Westal wonders whether such lists ought to be drawn up at all.

Brick director Rian Johnson lists his top ten Criterion releases.

Posted by dwhudson at August 9, 2007 1:05 PM