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    I think there should 1000% be more documentaries/non-narrative films in the Canon, and Kartemquin is amazing. I think The Interrupters might be a more interesting pick, just because its not for-sure Canon-material and it would be a chance to expose a great doc to more people.

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    Interesting that all three of those picks are from the 90s and afterwards. While I agree with Unforgiven,and would suggest Mystic River also, I think that his earlier Westerns are often ignored and Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, and The Outlaw Josey Wales are deserving of consideration.

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    The best performance of Robin Williams' career? I think that he's good in the movie (definitely the best part) but his performances in Fisher King and World's Greatest Dad are miles better in my opinion. Not to mention Aladdin.

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    I love Blood Simple, but it's No Country no question for me. No Country for Old Men is Top 5 Coen Brothers as far as I'm concerned.

     

    What are those 5? Mine would probably be:

     

    A Serious Man

    O Brother WHere Art Thou?

    The Hudsucker Proxy

    Fargo

    Inside Llewyn Davis

     

    ...but I admit that my fondness for Hudsucker is probably irrational

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    Meek's Cutoff is my favorite modern Western not named There Will Be Blood, but doesn't often get mentioned alongside True Grit, No Country, Assassination of Jesse James, 3:10 to Yuma, Django Unchained and the other acclaimed Westerns of the last couple years.

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    The internet is stuffed, it seems, with lists of "female film critics you should be reading" but after a cursory googling its kinda hard to find reviews by writers of color who publish on a regular basis. Who should I be reading? (Kam Williams is phenomenal, and Aisha Harris, Wesley Morris, Elvis Mitchell are great but don't publish weekly columns/reviews.)

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    ...damn, I googled and 2004 was a pretty important year for mainstream comedies. (Shaun of the Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Team America: World Police, 1st Harold & Kumar in addition to Mean Girls & Anchorman)

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    How about Mean Girls v. Anchorman? Both 2004 comedies that hold up and are ADORED by millennials, with the glitzy "guys v. girls" dynamic to keep it interesting. Adam McKay v. Tina Fey? All goddamn day!

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    I like There Will Be Blood more -- for a while it was my favorite movie of all time -- but I think I will be voting for Boogie Nights because of how it uses so many young actors so beautifully who would go on to define mainstream cinema in the 2000s. It's a one-stop shop to get PSH, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, William H. Macy, Luis Guzman etc. into the canon. And yes, Daniel Day-Lewis gives one of the all-time great performances, but there are 11 or 12 perfect characters in Boogie Nights, which keeps the movie's length from being punishing -- whenever you would get bored, Alfred Molina or Thomas Jane or Philip Baker Hall stop in to ratchet back up the amazingness.

     

    TWBB is really, oppressively male, which is the point, but Boogie Nights is a story that could have easily been solely about masculinity and instead gives Rollergirl and Julianne Moore real interiority. We need stories which deconstruct masculinity (and, again, TWBB is one of the best) but it doesn't have to be every fucking film.

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    I voted no, partially because I'm frustrated (along with Amy) that it would get in before any Cronenberg movie, and partially because I found Devin's argument for "fun" movies really short-sighted. It seems as if only horror, thriller, and sci-fi movies are "allowed" to be both campy and Canon-worthy -- I would like to see a lot more "fun" movies, but maybe next time fun movies like Mommie Dearest, Funny Girl, Pink Flamingos should be allowed to get in based on the same argument.

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    Still unsure of the rules for "indulgence," but The Hudsucker Proxy and Casino were the first two movies that came to mind. Buck and the Preacher is also great fun and underrated. Punch-Drunk Love?

     

    ... I guess all these movies are "minor" works by people I love who have too many classics to justify putting them in otherwise.

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    I think Wall-E would take this one in a landslide. The opening to Up is one of the great sequences of ANY film, but the rest of the movie isn't head and shoulders above other Pixar work, whereas Wall-E is entirely singular in the canon in addition to being really fucking good.

     

    Perhaps Toy Story v. Wall-E would be a better argument? I think the two are much closer in terms of quality, with Toy Story getting a slight edge for its place in animation history.

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    Ugh. I really hate this movie. It's supremely well-acted but I found it overlong, obvious, and fantastically boring, and in contrast to There Will Be Blood and No Country (as well as to other recent Westerns like True Grit, Meek's Cutoff, Slow West, Brokeback, and the Tarantinos) I don't think it does anything novel or profound with the genre.

     

    2007 was such a good year for film (in addition to TWWB and NCFOM, there's Zodiac, I'm Not There, Persepolis, Superbad, Juno, Knocked Up, Hot Fuzz, King of Kong, etc.) and I would hate to see Assassination get one of those rare post-2000 slots before a movie I genuinely like is up for debate.

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