Weekend lists.

"What makes up a 'personal daydream movie,' you might ask? It is the type of movie that inspires - whether during the movie, days afterward, or both - a mood in the viewer of wanting to linger in the film's particular world for hours on end, in the same way one might desire to linger in a dream at night before having to wake up to eye-crust-ridden early-morning reality." Kenji Fujishima presents an annotated list of five at the House Next Door.

Ken Russell, who knows a thing or two about music in movies, picks his favorite soundtracks. Also in the London Times, James Christopher wraps a "Modern Greats" contest with The Godfather.

Jonathan Lapper's got a list of firsts.

"[F]ew writers have turned actor with pleasing results." At ScreenGrab, Leonard Pierce lists five notable moments. On a related note, John Coulthart reminds us that Steven Soderbergh's "Kafka is one of a small group of works wherein well-known writers become embroiled in stories which exactly parallel their fiction. Joe Gores's Hammett (filmed by Wim Wenders in 1982) did this with Dashiell Hammett while Mark Frost in his novel, The List of Seven, had a pre-Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle becoming involved in a Holmesian mystery.... Kafka is also the Prague film par excellence."

At Cinematical, Patricia Chui lists the "25 Best High School Movies of All Time" and Monika Bartzel picks seven "Big Jerks of High School Movies."

Jim Emerson comments on Total Film's list of 100 "Greatest Directors Ever."

Posted by dwhudson at August 25, 2007 10:12 AM