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Mulholland Drive
Ghost World
Tree of Life
Upstream Color
No Country for Old Men
Inside Llewyn Davis
A.I.
The Man Who Wasn't There
City of God
Spirited Away
Port of Call New Orleans
Zodiac
Talk to Her
A Serious Man
Grizzly Man
Take Shelter
Children of Men
Certified Copy
Memento
Her
So there's at least twenty in my top ten. I think with all of these I was left thinking "that was amazing." With those further down I also thought "and yet" for whatever reason was relevant, but it wasn't the sort of yet that interfered with the amazingness, just some limitation of scope or consistency or full emotional involvement.
Not far behind, in no order: Poetry, A Separation, Adaptation, The Ghost Writer, Rescue Dawn, Into the Abyss, Gosford Park, Napoleon Dynamite, Marcy May Marlene, Deep Blue Sea, Winter's Bone, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The White Balloon, My Son My Son What Have You Done, Primer, You Can Count on Me, Once, Fog of War, Battle Royale, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Waking Life, Before Sunset, Sideways, The Piano Teacher, Michael Clayton, Monster's Ball, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert For, In the Loop, A Single Man, Little Miss Sunshine, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Borat, Bruno, The Kids Are All Right, Moon, Munich, War of the Worlds, The Terminal, The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, Wall E, Burn After Reading, maybe Inception. Doubtless forgetting at least several just as good.
I wonder where I'd fit The Wire and Breaking Bad in there. They hit higher heights than, say, Zodiac, but there's more filler or resting spaces. Movies have a shot at perfection.
Though the latter half of Breaking Bad pretty much hits that too. And if season 4 of The Wire doesn't I don't think anyone cares, given what it does hit. Perfect's not everything. Ask me which experience I'd rather have had, those tv shows or Zodiac, and I'd go with either show any day. By The Man Who Wasn't There I wouldn't be able to decide. Though by Mulholland Drive I'd be able again.
Ghost World
Tree of Life
Upstream Color
No Country for Old Men
Inside Llewyn Davis
A.I.
The Man Who Wasn't There
City of God
Spirited Away
Port of Call New Orleans
Zodiac
Talk to Her
A Serious Man
Grizzly Man
Take Shelter
Children of Men
Certified Copy
Memento
Her
So there's at least twenty in my top ten. I think with all of these I was left thinking "that was amazing." With those further down I also thought "and yet" for whatever reason was relevant, but it wasn't the sort of yet that interfered with the amazingness, just some limitation of scope or consistency or full emotional involvement.
Not far behind, in no order: Poetry, A Separation, Adaptation, The Ghost Writer, Rescue Dawn, Into the Abyss, Gosford Park, Napoleon Dynamite, Marcy May Marlene, Deep Blue Sea, Winter's Bone, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The White Balloon, My Son My Son What Have You Done, Primer, You Can Count on Me, Once, Fog of War, Battle Royale, Eastern Promises, A History of Violence, Waking Life, Before Sunset, Sideways, The Piano Teacher, Michael Clayton, Monster's Ball, Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert For, In the Loop, A Single Man, Little Miss Sunshine, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Borat, Bruno, The Kids Are All Right, Moon, Munich, War of the Worlds, The Terminal, The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, Wall E, Burn After Reading, maybe Inception. Doubtless forgetting at least several just as good.
I wonder where I'd fit The Wire and Breaking Bad in there. They hit higher heights than, say, Zodiac, but there's more filler or resting spaces. Movies have a shot at perfection.
Though the latter half of Breaking Bad pretty much hits that too. And if season 4 of The Wire doesn't I don't think anyone cares, given what it does hit. Perfect's not everything. Ask me which experience I'd rather have had, those tv shows or Zodiac, and I'd go with either show any day. By The Man Who Wasn't There I wouldn't be able to decide. Though by Mulholland Drive I'd be able again.