lists [22 Dec 2004|06:48pm] [ music | "Polovtsian Dance No. 17," Alexander Borodin ] So, the Village Voice critics poll ended up not being published this week as I expected, so I got a little bit of list withdrawal. For the hell of it, I pared down my current list of film "masterpieces" down to 100 films (which I haven't done for some time). I left one slot blank for one of two reasons (your choice): a) I put both parts of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible into one single slot, or b) I am about to finish Feuillad's Les Vampires and can't imagine what sort of massive fuck-up in the last few chapters would have to occur before I'd be unwilling to include it in the chosen hundred. ( the list is in a condition of living ) Acknowledged "problems"/"limitations" of the list (in other words, "yeah, I know, so don't even mention it, ok?"): too America-centric, too auteurist-canonical in influence, overwhelmingly comprised of films I've seen quite recently (this is almost always the case, though; I'm not too worried about it). NOTE: Edited on 12.30.04 to remove Les Vampires from the list because I claimed that it wasn't on there. Now there should be 99 titles on the list, with the hundredth pending finishing Les Vampires or deciding whether or not Hold Me While I'm Naked merits a mentch. NOTE #2: This list has been updated. The new, less reverent 100 can be found here. 26 comments|post comment

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