My Favorite Movies of the 2010s
This past decade was an important transitional time for me. It began with me entering my final semester of college, and it ended with me finally moving out of my […]
Tag Archives: The Tree of Life
Uh … 3 ½? — Voyage of Time
The Introduction Terrence Malick’s first and, to date, only nonfiction film took an appropriately long and strange journey into existence. Its origins can be traced back to the abandoned film […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Melancholia
The Introduction Following on the heels of my introduction to the films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul in the summer of 2015, I set my sights on one of cinema’s true rascals: […]
Some Links, Some Thoughts — and a Correction
No proper blog post this week, but I’ve written in a couple other places and felt like sharing the links. There’s a short review of Spike Jonze’s movie Her on my […]
My Favorite Movies: Moulin Rouge!
A screen on a stage. And then another stage. And a typewriter. Stories of stories of stories. The postmodern playfulness of Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! has been commented upon endlessly, but […]
Crescendo Into the Infinite
Can we imagine a more beautiful death than oxygen depletion during a space walk? Floating in absolute peace and utter silence, free to simply gaze at the most beautiful object […]
Supplemental Post: Pulp Fiction, Meet The Tree of Life
(See my previous post) As Deems Taylor puts it during his final speech in Fantasia, “[The pinnacle of my all-time favorite movies list] is a combination of two [films] so […]
The 2013 Update of My “Favorite Movies” List
I like to make Events out of these things. For the last few months, I’ve been looking forward to my annual shuffling of favorite movies, anticipating some major changes. If […]
My Favorite Movies: The Tree of Life
It’s a movie for a lifetime. I’ve seen Terrence Malick’s fifth film four times in its entirety, and I’ve revisited specific images and scenes even more than that. The most […]
My Favorite Movies: 2012 List Update
In 2004, I made my first Top 100 list of favorite films. I loved the idea of putting definite measurements on my experience with the medium, judging each film in […]
Geppetto's Clocks 