My Best Movie-Going Experiences of 2011

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Lincoln Spector

Happy New Year! With 2011 now consigned to the pages of history (and probably mythology), it’s time to look back at my favorite movie-going experiences of 2011. These aren’t the best films of 2011, the best films I saw at festivals that didn’t get a theatrical release, or even the best restorations. These are simply [...]

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My Top 10 Movie-Going Experiences of 2010

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Lincoln Spector

I didn’t see enough new movies last year to do a top ten list. And I didn’t cover enough festivals to do a Festival Top 10, either. So instead, here are my top 10 movie-going experiences of 2010. Half of these were silent film screenings. This was a great year for silents–dominated by Metropolis and  [...]

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Movie of the Decade

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Lincoln Spector

I’m not doing a Top Ten list this year—I’ve missed too many movies. Nor am I doing a Top Ten of the Decade. But I’d like to honor one film of the past ten years. Not the best film of the decade by a long shot; I would probably give it an A-. But it [...]

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The Best Films You Couldn’t See in 2008

Posted on December 24, 2008 by Lincoln Spector

I saw a lot of great movies this year. Unfortunately, quite a few of them never got released in this country. They screened at local festivals, but didn’t get picked up for commercial exhibition–even by the small, independent distributors who pick up the good stuff that the Hollywood studios and their faux independent subsidiaries, don’t [...]

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Top Ten Films of 2007

Posted on January 2, 2008 by Lincoln Spector

I’ve already told you my Top Ten criteria and shared my thoughts as I worked through the selection process. I’ve even let you know that I look for variety in quality work when selecting my Top Ten, rather than say that this drama is better than that comedy. (If you don’t know what I’m talking [...]

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Top Ten Preparation, Part V: Final Winnowing

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Lincoln Spector

In our last chapter, I managed to get the number of candidates down to 13, despite adding three additional films to the candidates list. Now I must add another, I Am Legend, bringing the number up to 14. So what can I remove? In Part III, I considered the possibility of eliminating La Vie En [...]

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Top Ten Preparation, Part IV: Comedies

Posted on December 26, 2007 by Lincoln Spector

Click the links for Part I, Part II, and Part III. I have to add another film to my top ten candidates: Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s wonderfully true-to-life comedy, Juno. And that’s handy, because comedy is exactly what I want to talk about in this chapter of my ongoing quest for the Top Ten [...]

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Top Ten Preparation, Part III: Categories

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Lincoln Spector

Click the links for Part I and Part II. Last time I discussed this topic, I had 17 possible candidates for the Top Ten. Instead of eliminating seven, however, I’ve added one: Atonement. Now there are 18! The very concept of a list requires you to say that this film is better than that film. [...]

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Top Ten Preparation–Part II

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Lincoln Spector

Click here for Part I. Last year around this time, I wrote a post about the best festival-only films I’d seen that year. Not a very practical list, as none of these films were readily available to American audiences, but I thought an interesting one. And perhaps, I told myself, my praise might get some [...]

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Top Ten Preparation–Part I

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Lincoln Spector

It’s December, when movie critics’ minds turn to their annual Top Ten lists. We don’t actually publish the list until January, but we think about it now. At least I do. and I thought I’d share my thoughts on the subject with you . So let’s get started with the rules. To qualify for my [...]

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