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Films of the Decade - Part VIII 27 Oct 2009 | 11:37 am
Animation takes center stage in this round of nominees for the best films of the decade. To get up to speed: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, and Part VII. As always, comments an...
Films of the Decade - Part VII 18 Oct 2009 | 06:00 am
Another round of nominees for the best films of the first decade of the 21st Century lines up some heavy hitters, including the Coen brothers, Spain’s most successful filmmaker of all-time, Pedro Almo...
Films of the Decade - Part VI 15 Oct 2009 | 05:04 pm
Gus van Sant and Charlie Kaufman make second appearances as the quest for the best films of the decade continues. To get up to speed: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V. As always, commen...
Films of the Decade - Part V 12 Oct 2009 | 04:02 pm
In Round 5 of our quest to narrow down the best films of the decade, we straddle the generations with offerings from directors who made their mark on the world cinema stage in the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s...
Best Films of the Decade - Part IV 7 Oct 2009 | 09:52 am
A series of heavy favorites this week in our quest for the best films of the decade. To get up to speed, click here to view the candidates from Part I, here for Part II, and here for Part III. As al...
Films of the Decade - Part III 28 Sep 2009 | 03:08 pm
As I began this quest to narrow down the best films of the decade, I proclaimed there would be no rhyme or reason to the films selected each week – only to find distinct themes and parallels surfacing...
Films of the Decade - Part II 9 Sep 2009 | 03:20 pm
In the first installment in our quest for the best films of the decade (click here for Part I), we spanned the globe from New York City to the Middle East, to pre-World War I English countryside, to p...
Films of the Decade 31 Aug 2009 | 04:45 pm
As we globally stumble towards fall, for most, 2009 cannot end fast enough. In a year best described as a have-not according to the ledgers of most businesses, the year has had, not completely unsurpr...
Budd Shulberg: Prose and Cons 19 Aug 2009 | 03:47 pm
Was I the only one surprised by the lack of coverage Budd Shulberg’s death pulled in as news hit that the legendary scribe had past away at the age of 95? Granted the growing-with-each-decade legend ...
Food in the Movies 13 Aug 2009 | 05:02 am
Food has had a long, often romantic, other times disturbing relationship with the cinema. And while not a full-fledged genre of its own, the culinary arts has had no real visionary force, or even midd...
