{"id":5661,"date":"2010-12-31T21:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2010-12-31T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T15:48:25","slug":"brandons-favorite-movies-from-the-2010-decade-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5661","title":{"rendered":"Brandon’s Favorite Movies from the 2010 Decade List"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the start of the year I read an awful lot of critics’ best-of-decade lists and built my own list of must-see titles from those lists, collecting eighty of them here<\/a>. But after watching thirty (more specifically, after watching Godard’s In Praise of Love<\/a><\/em>) I rebelled against the list and watched no more. These are the ones I loved – so, not my faves of the decade (those are here<\/a>) but my previously-unseen faves of other people’s faves of the decade. Whatever, right?<\/p>\n

1. Inland Empire<\/a><\/em> (2006, David Lynch)<\/strong>
\nAlready broke a rule, since I watched this in theaters when it came out. But have you really “seen” Inland Empire<\/em> until you’ve seen it twice? Who cares – I studied it closely this time, watched all the bonus material, and thought it was tops.<\/p>\n

2. Colossal Youth<\/a><\/em> (2006, Pedro Costa)<\/strong>
\nThe only movie on the list (of the year?) to which I devoted more time than Inland Empire<\/em> – because I figured to appreciate what critics were calling Costa’s masterpiece, I should first watch all his previous films. Can’t say I enjoyed them all, but I appreciated Colossal Youth<\/em> much more for having seen them in order.<\/p>\n

3. Va Savoir<\/a><\/em> (2001, Jacques Rivette)<\/strong>
\nI limit myself to a couple Rivette films per year so he won’t take up my entire year-end list. If I only watched one this year, it’s because I wrongly assumed I’d also be able to see his latest, Around a Small Mountain<\/em>, which played festivals in late 2009.<\/p>\n

4. Syndromes and a Century<\/a><\/em> (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)<\/strong>
\nSo fascinated was I by A.W.’s films this year, I can now spell his name without having to look up how.<\/p>\n

5. Three Times<\/a><\/em> (2005, Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/strong>
\nHad to try watching this super-slow mood piece a few times, but it finally paid off. Completely transcendent – wish I could see it on the big screen.<\/p>\n

6. Fat Girl<\/a><\/em> (2001, Catherine Breillat)<\/strong>
\nAlways assumed I’d dislike Breillat, and especially this movie, so maybe it gains extra points from being such a surprise favorite.<\/p>\n

7. The Tracey Fragments<\/a><\/em> (2007, Bruce McDonald)<\/strong>
\nMcDonald’s second straight<\/a> appearance on year-end lists. To think that in ’08 I’d never heard of him. Can’t wait to check out his early rock & roll road movies.<\/p>\n

8. The Intruder<\/a><\/em> (2004, Claire Denis)<\/strong>
\nIt’s boring to say that I need to watch this again, since I’d love to watch all these movies again, and since the shuffled chronology and dreamlike narrative causes everyone<\/strong> to declare that they need to watch this again, but truly I need to watch this again. Denis is my favorite discovery of the year, even though I’d already discovered her<\/a>.<\/p>\n

9. Birth<\/a><\/em> (2004, Jonathan Glazer)<\/strong>
\nCurrently my favorite Nicole Kidman ghost story. She has starred in a few movies that question reality in interesting ways.<\/p>\n

10. Frontier of Dawn<\/a><\/em> (2008, Philippe Garrel)<\/strong>
\nOne more ghost story to round things off. Colossal Youth<\/em> is definitely one, and for all I know, Inland Empire<\/em>, The Intruder<\/em> and Syndromes<\/em> would count too. Tracey Fragments<\/em> has a haunting death, but I wouldn’t call it a ghost story.<\/p>\n

Honorable mentions from the decade-viewing project:<\/strong> Kings and Queen<\/a><\/em> (esp. the first half), The<\/a> Bourne<\/a> Trilogy<\/a> (esp. part three), and Miike’s underrated Izo<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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