Ok, so my co-host and I have done our ‘Films of the Decade’ show:
TFT 104 – The Films of the Decade
but in that ep I talked about my most underrated films of the past 10 years – not the films that were necessarily the most beautiful and moving, or that will be talked about and seen as important in the years to come. So to correct that Dear Reader/Listener here’s some thoughts on the topic. Below are three of my most important films of the decade:
What do these three pics have in common? They show us clearly that not only is cinema not dead:
Cinema is Collapsing? So What Are You Gonna Do About It?
but we are, in fact, just at the beginning of what is possible in the medium:
- Che is narrative fictional film with the naturalism of a documentary: Che – and the Creation of a Style – a TFT Review
- Silent Light shows us that we’re just at the beginning of cinema grammer and technique: Silent Light – a TFT Review
- Gaia illustrates how the new technologies are liberating storytellers to show us life, and death, as never before seen on the cinema screen: Gaia on the Podcast
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These three films should make you excited for the future of cinema and for the years of movies yet to come. Of course I’m biased on this front as I’ve just seen the first film of the new decade – the boisterous, joyous and life affirming wonderment that is : The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans.
Details to follow soon.
