Lists. frieze.

For Thierry Jousse, a film director who edited Cahiers du cinéma in the early 90s, Zodiac is "a deep reflection on the evaporation of truth.... Assisted by Harris Savides, formerly Gus van Sant's director of photography, [David] Fincher combines visual beauty and narrative virtuosity to arrive at melancholy drift that has no equivalent in the American cinema of the last 20 years." Van Sant's Paranoid Park is among his highlights of the year in film as well.

Further down that same page in the January-February issue of frieze, programmer Juliane Wanckel prefaces her own list by noting, "War and sickness suffused the cinema of 2007, from multiplex fodder to art-house fare. The most resonant of these films sought historical perspective on the fractured, divided, threatened individual at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st."

More year-end roundups: Eugenia Bell on design, Ali Smith and Liz Brown on books and Jace Clayton on music - speaking of which, Ann Powers and Simon Reynolds do just that. Discuss the year in music, that is.

Posted by dwhudson at December 4, 2007 11:19 AM