Defending 'Vertigo' From Myself.
Reactions to the Cannes Lineup
'Trip to the Moon' In Color
How I Met My 'Doppelganger' at 'Twilight ...
Revisiting 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'
In Praise of Woody Allen.
Brief Thoughts On 'Contagion.'
Harold & Kumar & Sonic.
Don't Say "Fuck 'Twilight.'" It's Good.Best of the Decade: Expanding the Arena, Part VI.
This is the latest in a series of blog posts collecting best of the decade lists from “non-professional” film-lovers. Go here to read the previous entry.
In this installment:
Zack "Attack" Sultan
Art Director, FullSIX; freelance graphic designer
1. The Ring
2. Primer
3. Mysterious Skin
4. Mullholland Dr.
5. Cache
6. The Man Who Wasn't There
7. Children of Men
8. Wall-E
9. There Will Be Blood
10. Kung Fu Hustle
COMMENTS:
The Ring, weirdly enough, is one of the best depictions of decade-defining changes in the global media landscape, for which epidemiology, rather than ecology, seems a fitting metaphor. By imagining a video as literally viral (and totally inescapable), the movie prefigures outbreaks of decontextualized movie clips across hot-zones of networked computer terminals and mobile "smart phones" three years before the launch of YouTube.
Primer, I think, speaks to an uneasy moment in which the technical engineering of global "good" seems to consistently be threatened by labyrinthine social and political ramifications that underlie apparently well-intentioned and simple solutions.
Kung Fu Hustle is just rad!
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