With the
Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday more or less officially ending the awards season, this is pretty much my last chance to blog on some notable best film lists of 2011 worth highlighting.
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Don’t settle for a mysterious island when there’s a whole secret world to be discovered.
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After my
initial introduction and my
blog post, you might be done reading about the 2011 Arts & Faith Top 100 List from me — but for what it's worth I've written
one final piece on the subject for
FirstThings.com … my first thing for First Things.
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My
2010 year-end piece and top 10/20 films has been up for a few weeks, and with the Academy Awards upon us we’re almost ready to be finished with the movie year 2010. Before turning the page entirely, though, I’d like to draw attention to a few more year-end lists worth noting.
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As a longtime member of the
Arts & Faith community, I’m pleased to report that this week Arts & Faith and
Image Journal released the
2011 edition of the Arts & Faith Top 100 Films list—possibly the best edition of the list to date, and in many ways an improvement on last year’s list.
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Props to reader Victor for highlighting this
infographic from a few years back analyzing the differences between the creative processes at Pixar and DreamWorks.
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Borrowing a page from the UK’s
Campaign for Real Ale, Roger Ebert blogs from Cannes on the need for a
Campaign For Real Movies.
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Beauty, loss, longing, mystery: Fans of Tolkien might reach for such language in describing the power of Middle-earth. They are not words that many Americans naturally associate with animation. American animation typically means humor, slapstick, sentiment, and perhaps a positive message about family or believing in yourself.
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Peter Chattaway has just
posted some thoughts he’s previously shared elsewhere regarding the shape of Pixar’s body of work to date, and I’ve long thought it’s a brilliant theory.
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“Read not the
Times, read the eternities,” Thoreau advised. The
2010 Arts & Faith Top 100 Films, just released days ahead of the Academy Awards, won’t make the headlines of the
Times — but if you prefer to scrutinize the eternities, you might want to skip the Oscars and check out the Arts & Faith Top 100.
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A few weeks ago the
National Catholic Register ran my
2009 year-end piece with my lists of “top ten” and runner-up films. (An
expanded version of the article appeared at Decent Films.) This week, I’d like to catch up with a few other lists from Christian sources worth noting.
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