tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post1054519648819836507..comments2024-02-23T05:17:08.682-05:00Comments on The Film Freak Central Blog: ...to the finish line (pt. 2)Bill Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-68578280623912218692009-12-24T10:31:03.480-05:002009-12-24T10:31:03.480-05:00Oh yeah, and MEMENTO stays put.Oh yeah, and MEMENTO stays put.Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-24881434888103676942009-12-24T10:28:36.136-05:002009-12-24T10:28:36.136-05:00Me and Walt were originally gonna do this together...Me and Walt were originally gonna do this together but my navel became so damn alluring I couldn't look away.<br /><br />2001 would've probably been my easiest year to revise. I'm ecstatic that THE PLEDGE made Walt's redux list--I'm well and truly haunted by that flick and wish it got more love. Tom Noonan said in a recent A.V. Club interview that they ran out of money before Bill Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14011398543859221282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-32532168560685023592009-12-23T21:15:36.592-05:002009-12-23T21:15:36.592-05:00I would disagree with your removal of In the Bedro...I would disagree with your removal of <i>In the Bedroom</i> from the Top 10 list, if not for the unfortunate bandaid-removing scene from the end of the film - it should have ended on an empty, ambiguous note, the kind of which Cronenberg ended his starting <i>A History of Violence</i> and the permanently-underrated <i>Eastern Promises</i>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-28244721314079713572009-12-23T20:37:51.219-05:002009-12-23T20:37:51.219-05:00So contrary to expectations, it seems Germany is a...So contrary to expectations, it seems Germany is a year earlier, then? Spirited Away in 2001, Memento in 2000... although I admit I went with imdb / rottentomatoes / metacritic dates when looking for films of the years.<br /><br />I can't get into Wes Anderson films, nor Lynch, so I would have neither Tenenbaums nor Mulholland on my list (though Lost Highway was the last Lynch I saw)Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08178910224548079394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-69721495351503974922009-12-23T19:40:09.145-05:002009-12-23T19:40:09.145-05:00spirited away was on ffc's 2002 list.spirited away was on ffc's 2002 list.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-81583485764265499272009-12-23T18:36:03.662-05:002009-12-23T18:36:03.662-05:00LOTR got a marathon viewing session at my house af...<i>LOTR</i> got a marathon viewing session at my house after I collected all three extended DVDs. That was overdose enough, and like a man who's eaten too much acid, I wasn't tempted to go back. The returns definitely diminish.<br /><br />I'm befuddled by what top 10 lists <i>Mulholland Drive</i> ISN'T on. AP's two chief critics and Ann Hornaday at the Washington Post make Jefferson Robbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05356665406917571985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9668842.post-86677037925062265342009-12-23T18:27:17.734-05:002009-12-23T18:27:17.734-05:00My favorite from 2001 was "Spirited Away"...My favorite from 2001 was "Spirited Away", and I also noted that since I got it on DVD, I have not rewatched Fellowship of the Ring as often as I would have expected right out of the cinema; indeed, I last watched it five years ago and I don't miss it.Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08178910224548079394noreply@blogger.com