(created two years after the Korean War, this cute scene looks a lot uglier 5 decades later with its casual racism aimed at the ‘Red Chinese.’ Never mind that the ‘Siamese’ should represent our Thai allies. At this point in American history it was convenient — even expedient — to paint all Southeast Asians as devious communists.) TIME’s...
A variation on “Your Favorite Movie Fathers,” let’s make today more about whatever our dads like instead of what we want. I don’t even have to phone up and ask my father. His favorite movie last year was True Grit, and I know off the top of my head the movies he’ll watch again and again: The French Connection, Unforgiven, The Godfather,...
…that I’ve seen, so far. As recently as last month, I couldn’t have scraped together 10 tiles worthy to sit on a reputable “best” list. I enjoyed Thor and X-Men well enough, but I can’t pretend the pleasure they delivered was very much more than a sigh of relief that disaster had been averted. Within the past few days, though, I’ve...
Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film 1. In the Mood for Love 2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days 3. The Lives of Others 4. Cach√© 5. Let the Right One In 6. There Will Be Blood 7. No Country for Old Men 8. The Piano Teacher 9. Donnie Darko 10. The Royal Tenenbaums 11. Talk to Her 12. Brokeback Mountain 13. Pan’s Labyrinth 14. Y Tu Mam√° Tambien 15. Memento 16....
Topping the list: James Cameron Steven Spielberg Leonardo DiCaprio John Lasseter Brad Pitt Christopher Nolan Scott Rudin Quentin Tarantino George Clooney Ed Vaizey Johnny Depp Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner JJ Abrams Alan F Horn and Jeff Robinov Ridley Scott Complete list of the top 100 at the Guardian UK. Read their rationale and fending off the blowback...