L Magazine. Top Tens.

"The best film to grace our theaters this year, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon is, in its clean, well-lighted long takes, weightless and grounded, frantic and placid, modern and timeless, Eastern and Western, and cheaper than therapy," writes editor Mark Asch, opening a package of top tens in the L Magazine.

More lists to be read at leisure over the holidays: Jesse Hassenger (Snow Angels), Nicolas Rapold (Still Life), Michael Joshua Rowin (Synecdoche, New York), Henry Stewart (Synecdoche), Benjamin Strong (Profit motive and the whispering wind) and Benjamin H Sutton (probably Happy-Go-Lucky).

And Cullen Gallagher looks back on ten "cinematic spectacles that either can’t be replicated in the comfort of your own home, or wouldn’t be the same on DVD."

See also the L Magazine's "Best Albums of 2008," a review of the year in theater and Paddy Johnson's picks for the highlights of the year in art.

Posted by dwhudson at December 24, 2008 7:55 AM