After three incredulous inquiries, A Clarification: : Directly below, by "Top Ten", I meant not "Most Important", in large part because I missed SO MANY MOVIES (Far From Heaven, City of God, I'm looking at you), but "The Ten Films To Which I Rocked Out The Very Most". If you want a "real" list, go read some "real" critic's website. I'll have a "better" list when I can "afford" to eat, let alone throw down eight friggin' fifty at Downtown West every damn Friday. Not that I don't long to with every fiber of my Black Little Heart, but it's all I can do for now to keep myself in Cornflakes And Gin.
I did set out, at one point, with my original list and a list of other movies I saw last year, to do the Important Films Categorical Imperative Canonical list, but most of them wound up back in there anyway, owing mostly to my Pining For The Resurgence Of The American Epic. When I looked at what I was typing and saw "Because it's About Damn Time someone made a movie about Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis as Elvis and JFK fighting a mummy preying on a nursing home in East Texas", I gave up; I gave in. I am what I am. Give me the hook or the ovation.
Reading: Things You Need To Be Told and More Things You Need To be Told, by Lesley Carlin and Honore McDonough Ervin
Seen: More like "Spiritually Assaulted By" Quills. I finally saw the whole thing last night. Gawd. I Need A Grown-Up.