Yoshi’s Top Ten Movies of the Last Ten Years
In no particular order…
1. Children of Men – I had the idea for this movie 2 years before it came out, and spent them paralyzed by the fear that someone would think of it and write it before me. As it turns out the book was published 10 years before I thought of it (14 before it was made into a film).
2. There Will Be Blood – Should have won best picture but everyone loves the Coen Brothers. Whatever. I’m a bastard in a box. I drink your milkshake.
3. Dancer in the Dark – Saw this in Kansas City before I moved to Lawrence. Felt like puking after it was done – the mark of a great movie.
4. The Royal Tennenbaums – Classic Wes Anderson. Duh. Go Mordecai!
5. Spirited Away – It’s like being in a child’s dream: it makes sense but it doesn’t make sense. I keep saying Ima be NoFace for Halloween, but haven’t done it yet.
6. Synecdoche, NY – I mainly just like the word “synecdoche.” One of the few times being an English major has paid off in the real world.
7. Lost in Translation – I loved The Virgin Suicides (maybe even better than Lost in Translation). Whatsherface proved promising after this role (and the shot of her b.c. in the opening title), but what can you do?
8. Ostrov (The Island) – Beautiful movie about Orthodox Christianity. It’s like reading the lives of the saints on film.
9. Let the Right One In – Swedish. Check. Vampires. Check. PERFECT.
10. The New World – Haunting. And just enough dialog to keep Collin Farrell from ruining it. Underrated.
That’s them in a nutshell. Check out my blog for a more complete commentary on each film, coming in the next coupla’ days.
TNX. -Yoshi
