Falling asleep last night, I came up with a list of English-language movies I think (and in some cases hope) will be the future classics from the first decade (or this much of it so far) of the 21st century.
I originally did it in my mind alphabetically, but it started to grow so large I changed to my old favorite trinity lists, inventing new categories to include the flicks that came to mind as those I would vote for for consideration as what the future will deem classics:
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY HIGH SCHOOL MOVIES:
JUNO
MEAN GIRLS
NAPOLEAN DYNAMITE
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY WOODY ALLEN MOVIES
MATCH POINT
SMALL TIME CROOKS
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
[I haven’t seen WHATEVER WORKS yet]
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY ACTION MOVIES
THE BOURNE IDENTITY
THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY SERIOUS GEORGE CLOONEY MOVIES
MICHAEL CLAYTON
THE GOOD GERMAN
SYRIANA
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY COMIC GEORGE CLOONEY MOVIES
BURN AFTER READING
LEATHERHEADS
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY CAPER GEORGE CLOONEY MOVIES
OCEAN’S ELEVEN
OCEAN’S TWELVE
OCEAN’S THIRTEEN
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY MOVIE MUSICALS
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
DREAMGIRLS
ONCE
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY CRIME DRAMAS
AMERICAN VIOLET
FROZEN RIVER
GONE BABY GONE
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY ROMANTIC COMEDIES
FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL
2 DAYS IN PARIS
WAITRESS
MOST UNIQUE 21ST CENTURY LOVE STORIES
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
LOST IN TRANSLATION
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY ANIMATED FILMS
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLVILLE [I know I said English language, but this is in the universal language of animation]
UP [especially in 3-D]
WALL-E
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY OLD STYLE EPIC FILMS
APCOLYPTO
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY NEWISH-STYLE EPIC FILMS
ATONEMENT
BABEL
CRASH
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY ULTIMATELY TRAGIC MOVIES
IN BRUGES
INTO THE WILD
NOTES ON A SCANDAL
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY TRIUMPH OF THE UNDERDOG MOVIES
THE GREAT DEBATERS
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY FEEL GOOD MOVIES DESPITE THEIR SUBJECT MATTER
THE UPSIDE OF ANGER
THE VISITOR
YOU KILL ME
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY ULTIMATELY TRAGIC LOVE STORIES
AWAY FROM HER
EASTERN PROMISES
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
FAVORITE 21ST CENTURY OVERCOMING-THE-ODDS LOVE STORIES
HIGH FIDELITY
JUST LIKE HEAVEN
SKINS [the Native American one, the love in this case being familial]
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4 comments:
you actually
remember all of this schlock/dreck
a l p h b e t i c a l l y ?
Amazing
Ed, which is the "schlock/dreck"—my making lists of favorite books or movies or art etc. like this one, or the actual movies I chose? If it's the latter, what a blanket judgement. Not worthy of you to my mind. If it's my lists, or lists in general, why bother with your own poetry and other writing, which more often than not involves list making. Unless you mean all writing is "schlock/dreck" or...
Anyway, like most poets (and I suspect most people) I love lists, and since this is my blog, I share them.
And yes, the way I remember the lists I use to help me fall asleep is by doing them alphabetically. I actually picture the alphabet and then search my memory for something (or someone in some lists) that fits the parameters I make up for each one and starts with that letter.
(sometimes I look up details the next day to make sure I remember it correctly, like I thought of GROSSE POINT BLANK last night when I was first making an alphabet list, but wasn't sure it was made in the past nine years so I left it off, before I switched to the triplets one (and found out today that my doubts were correct, it came out in the '90s).
Etc.
I watched "Napoleon Dynamite" and didn't laugh once. The next day, however, my head could not stop trying to figure out what it had seen. Uncle Rico, "Do the chickens have large talons?" drawing ligers, Vote for Pedro, the llamas, all of it so quirky in a blatantly understated way (if there can be such a thing), I didn't start laughing until 12 hours after the movie was over.
Dear M:
These should be the new Oscar categories---it would make the event much more interesting. And as for Ed Baker's condescending dismissal of such great works as "Michael Clayton" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou" as dreck---you give his benighted and limited perspective more attention than it deserves.
TPW
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