We live in a society of the present. Information, media and advertising bombard us in every conceivable way. It has brought our World closer together, but it has also marginalized the past and with it the value of knowledge.
Everyone has always had an opinion, but now everyone has a platform to voice those opinions. Not that this is a completely negative occurrence, but it should not cause the death of serious journalism and make intellectualism a bad thing. Today, everyone is a critic. Unfortunately, this has marginalized our best critics, thinkers, writers who have devoted their lives to their field.
It may just be a product of my growing older, but I am horrified that today, more than ever before, the value of history has been forgotten. Many of the financial, political and cultural missteps of the past decade could have been avoided by learning from our past.
As we hurdle forward into a new decade at a staggering pace, it is reassuring to me that our leading film artists tried to remind us that we do not in fact all have collective amnesia. Amongst my favorites of the decade, no theme is more dominant than the importance of the past.
Ten Best Fiction Films of the Decade
9. Fat Girl
7. Donnie Darko (Original Theatrical Version)
6. Zodiac
5. Time Out
4. Yi Yi
Ten Best Documentaries of the Decade
10. Jesus Camp
7. Tarnation
3. Stevie
Ten Best Television Shows of the Decade
10. The Daily Show
9. Deadwood
8. Freaks and Geeks
7. Curb Your Enthusiasm
6. Dexter
5. Arrested Development
4. 30 Rock (Pre-Writers Strike)
3. The Office (BBC)
2. Six Feet Under
1. The Wire
Ten Best Albums of the Decade
10. Air: Talkie Walkie
9. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP
8.Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
8. Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
7. OutKast: The Love Below/ Speakerboxxx
6. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
5. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
4. Hot Chip: The Warning
3. Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple
2. M.I.A.: Kala
1. M. Ward: Post-War
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TEN BEST OF THE DECADE
by Mark Metcalf
1. City of God
2. Children of Men
3. Cache
4. Bloody Sunday
5. Requiem For a Dream
6. In the Mood For Love
7. Grizzly Man
8. Old Boy
9. Incredibles
10. WALL-E
My Top Ten Films of the Decade (in no particular order)
Cache
Mulholland Dr.
Kill Bill 1 & 2
Donnie Darko
Tarnation
American Splendor
Head-On
Lost in Translation
The Triplets of Belleville
Morvern Callar
The Man Who Wasn't There
Oldboy
Technically that's 12 (13 if you separate the Kill Bill Volumes), but I included 2 docs in my list.
10-best experimental films of the new millennium:
by Stan Brakhage
10) Speechless (Scott Stark, 2008)
9) Evergreen (Robert Todd, 2006)
8) Strip Mall Trilogy (Roger Beebe, 2002-'06)
7) Time-Killer to His Spacemaker (Bruce McClure, 2008)
6) Arcs of Texture (Ken Paul Rosental)
5) Torchlight Tango (Kerry Laitala, 2006)
4) Horizontal Boundaries (Pat O'Neal, 2008)
3) Pinhole Projection (Tom Tomoko, 2006)
2) Last Light of a Dying Star (Roger Beebe, 2009)
1) Book of Mirrors (Joost Rekveld, 2002)
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