New York. 2007 Culture Awards.

"[W]e're about to behold the rarest of all hopeful monsters in entertainment's evolution: a brilliant film adaptation of a musical," announces New York, opening its year-end best-of all-round cover package. "Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd, starring the other guy on our cover, opens December 21." And it's the only cultural artifact of the waning year to get an entry all its own here, Logan Hill's quick chat with Burton and Johnny Depp.

Besides a poll, a chart and a preview 08, it's mostly lists, of course. David Edelstein's movie list isn't strictly hierarchical, though there is a #1: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The other ten slots (yes, it "goes to eleven") are more categories than rankings; e.g., "Best Unreal Movies That Made You Rethink Reality" (Ratatouille and Persepolis).

Update, 12/11: David Edelstein carries on listing.

Posted by dwhudson at December 10, 2007 1:10 AM