She is Greek, she is great

In recent weeks I've written reviews of three Agnès Varda films for Not Coming to a Theater Near You's "Viva Varda!" retrospective: Uncle Yanco, Mur murs, and Jacquot de Nantes. What have you done?

The Last Metro

My final review for the François Truffaut series, which ends this weekend, is up now at Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

And here is The Wild Child.

Voìla! My take on The Soft Skin, part of the ongoing series on François Truffaut.

Love on the Run

Love on the Run: The Films of François Truffaut, a month-long feature I'm overseeing for Not Coming to a Theater Near You, launches today.

I forgot to mention, I wrote a review of Spartacus last week.

My review of The Killing for the new Stanley Kubrick feature at Not Coming to a Theater Near You has now been posted.

Death By Water

My review of Peter Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers is up now at Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

Decadence

Because the aforementioned NCTATNY feature includes aggregated poll data but not individual lists, I thought I'd post my Best Films of the 2000s list here. In alphabetical order:

1. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
2. Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006)
3. The Class (Entre les murs) (Laurent Cantet, 2009)
4. Dogville (Lars Von Trier, 2003)
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
6. The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003)
7. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
8. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)
9. Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
10. Inland Empire (David Lynch, 2006)
11. Kings and Queen (Rois et reine) (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)
12. Lost in Translation (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
13. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
14. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen Brothers, 2000)
15. The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste) (Michael Haneke, 2001)
16. Russian Ark (Russkiy kovcheg) (Alexander Sokurov, 2002)
17. Songs from the Second Floor (Sånger från andra våningen) (Roy Andersson, 2000)
18. Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
19. Talk to Her (Hable con ella) (Pedro Almodovar, 2002)
20. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)

Bona fide

Not Coming's long-awaited Decade in Review feature is now up, including my essay on the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? Be sure to watch the snazzy video introduction on the main page first!

Quote unquote fantastic

A few choice words on Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox over at Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

Happy Halloween

My review of the 1977 horror movie Hausu, in which I managed not to use the words "batshit insane," is up now at Not Coming to a Theater Near You.

Oh, the Depravity!

I did two reviews for Not Coming's recent Erich von Stroheim series: Merry-Go-Round and Queen Kelly.

Just the next thing that happens

My final Women of the West piece, on John Huston's The Misfits, is up now you know where. We now return you to Men of the East (like R.P. Blackmur).

Behind every man…

Women of the West rolls on and on... Here's my review of The Violent Men.

Father, Mother, Husband, Counselor, Jackanapes, Bartender…

My second review for Women of the West.

Kindley Writes Again

My review of Destry Rides Again — the first of a few contributions to Notcoming's Women of the West series — is online now.

Everybody see Coraline!

I still watch movies sometimes

as long as they're about teaching or the end of the world.

The Yr That Wuz

Notcoming's 2008-in-review feature is now up, within which I wax economic and probabilistic about A Christmas Tale. And while we're at it, there's this and this and this.