Just this year Netflix financed films by Bigelow, Baumbach, del Toro, & Johnson. Plus they acquired TRAIN DREAMS.

Since acquiring Paramount Ellison announced a deal w/ the STRANGER THINGS guys and a CALL OF DUTY movie.

I don't like the ida of WB being absorbed but using quality as a cudgel is odd.

This is Paul Blart Mall Cop erasure.

Hasn't the entire market for political books basically collapsed? Tapper & Thompson's Biden book, KJP's going independent book, Fetterman's memoir, etc. None of them sold. MAGA doesn't buy books other than as a fundraising grift and the left isn't interested in revisiting 2024.

That film was released in 1976. It's not even "eligible" for this list.

Sure, except his films (his early ones anyway) were a synthesis of Godard and Corbucci and Suzuki and HK action and blacksploitation and wuxia, etc. This list contains 6 films nominated for Best Picture. Considering how he dragged this out for weeks it doesn't feel like he labored over it much.

Don't know about "history of forever." This is just his favorite films of the last 25 years and Fury Road is almost a perfect Venn diagram of highbrow/lowbrow/critical acclaim/awards winner/formalism/populism/etc.

It felt like a film from an artist who's much older than 55 in that it's particularly consumed with legacy and a perceived lack of vitality. How will I be remembered vs. I just want to be left alone so I can order a pizza in peace.

I just filed my gently pro review last night. It's a lot of the stylistic brio & non sequiturs of his earlier films but it's in service of a (perhaps overly reverential) portrait of a politician who takes compassion, the law & the responsibilities of the role seriously which is quite the salve ATM.

I'm not even disparaging the choices. Reminds me of when people were bagging on Ti West's Sight & Sound ballot as being too "normie." No one's saying CHINATOWN or THE GODFATHER are bad films. But if you view lists as reflective of a person's idiosyncrasies it doesn't tell us much about them.

Har har. Yes, that occurred to me at the time. Two Scott films as well two "Woody" ones.

I knew I was getting myself into trouble not calling him Allen.

Didn't even make his top 20.

I don't think that's really factoring into his tastes unless you're calling out unconscious bias on his part (he used to date Coppola so her inclusion should raise eyebrows some).

I'm more surprised that for such a champion of international cinema they're all English-language films.

I haven't posted it yet but my lbox review riffs on the old "why not build the whole plane out of the black box" gag only it's "why not build the entire Bond film out of the over-sexed, credit sequence?"