This New Year I found myself looking back over the last decade rather than the year that has just passed. Naturally, this included all the conventional lists, but as my memory is lame, this proved extraordinarily difficult. And so, my lists were composed not so much of what I thought was the best work of the decade, but the work that I best remembered.
Of course, that's really what's important, anyway. I mean, as individuals we should measure the success of a work of art not by any sort of intellectual or even comparative analysis, but how that work spoke to and affected each one of us. And so now, I look back at a few of my more significant cinematic experiences over the last decade.
In 2001, when the French film Amelie came out, it was an immediate romantic ideal. Unexpected, warm and beautiful, it suggested an incredible world of...
Of course, that's really what's important, anyway. I mean, as individuals we should measure the success of a work of art not by any sort of intellectual or even comparative analysis, but how that work spoke to and affected each one of us. And so now, I look back at a few of my more significant cinematic experiences over the last decade.
In 2001, when the French film Amelie came out, it was an immediate romantic ideal. Unexpected, warm and beautiful, it suggested an incredible world of...
- 1/4/2010
- by Michael Murray
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