Classical movies in miniature style. [So good, right? The cinetrix has never forgotten how taken she was by the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent exhibit she saw in the 80s.]
what movie have you seen more than any other?
Criticwire's latest poses the question I ask of my students on the first day of class every semester: I want to remove the idea of shame early on. One year, a young woman who was trying to add the class e-mailed me and said she deserved a spot more than another female student who had answered, Titanic. I replied that such a comment was beneath her, and she was duly chastened [although I secretly agreed].
What's your answer? I usually say a tie between The Blues Brothers and The Big Lebowski, which I suspect puts the young men at ease. Now I just wish I recognized more than half of the respondents' names.
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The cinetrix is opposed to the naked play for page views that is the slideshow, but I have to say EW.com's "50 Best Movies You've Never Seen" is pretty fucking worth it. Probably because it reminded me of a cherished National Society of Film Critics collection, long out of print, that explains a lot about the cinetrix who stands before you today: Produced and Abandoned: The National Society of Film Critcs Write on the Best Films You've Never Seen.
So click through if you must, load up your queue, or list in the comments how many of these you've seen. For me, this list is a snapshot of moving away from art house heaven, being broke, experiencing Netflix guilt, or suffering shelving fatigue [wherein one has reshelved these films at the video store so many times--frequently, as fellow employees' picks--the thought of fucking watching them ever becomes too much of a chore].
- Twenty-Four Hour Party People (2002)
- Backbeat (1994)
- Bamboolzed (2000)
- Box of Moonlight (1996)
- Broken English (2007)*
- Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)*
- The Century of the Self (2005)
- Chuck & Buck (2000)
- Cold Comfort Farm (1995)*
- The Daytrippers (1996)
- Devil's Playground (2002)
- Dig! (2004)
- Enter the Void (2009)*
- Eve's Bayou (1997)
- Fish Tank (2009)*
- Fly Away Home (1996)
- George Washington (2000)
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)*
- Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2010)
- Happy Accidents (2000)*
- Idiocracy (2006) YOU SHOULD JUST FUCKIN' OWN THIS
- The Iron Giant (1999)*
- I've Loved You So Long (2008)
- Last Night (2011)*
- Layer Cake (2004)
- Lilya 4-Ever (2003)
- Love & Basketball (2000)
- The Magdelene Sisters (2002)
- Marwencol (2010)*
- Memories of a Murder (2003)
- Moon (2009)
- Murderball (2005)
- My Summer of Love (2004)*
- Next Stop, Wonderland (1998)
- The Orphanage (2007)
- Perfect Blue (1997)
- Prime (2005)
- Primer (2004)
- Rare Exports (2010)*
- The Ref (1994) ENTHUSIASTIC CO-SIGN
- Rescue Dawn (2006)
- The Rules of Attraction (2002)*
- Safe Men (1998)*
- Smiley Face (2007)
- Surfwise (2007)
- Together (2000)*
- Two Family House (2000)*
- Walking and Talking (1996)* ENTHUSIASTIC CO-SIGN
- Wendy and Lucy (2008)
- Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
*Currently streaming on Netflix, FWIW.
- Michael Koresky's top 10 Criterion discoveries
- "The Missing Factory": John Roberts considers why this hegemonic site of value-production must remain absent from film and bourgeois culture more generally
- Glenn Kenny's fifty delightful family movies
- The stars began choosing their own roles, giving their image the slip, dabbling in self-deconstruction. Which is where Hitchcock came in, with his Dorian Gray instinct for counter-casting: divining a mirror-image of the face a star presents to the world, and asking them to play that.
- (Carroll, by the way, is the first of Hitchcock’s great cool beauties; when she drops her spectacles the effect is as electric as Dorothy Malone taking off her glasses in “The Big Sleep.”)
