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Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly personal and never obvious, new episodes drop Thursdays.
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What NYT’s Top 100 Movies Missed: 2 Former Video Store Clerks Get Real
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What NYT’s Top 100 Movies Missed: 2 Former Video Store Clerks Get Real
Twenty-four years ago, Wesley Morris and the film curator Eric Hynes were just a couple of “cooler-than-you” cinephiles working at Kim’s Video, the beloved New York City video store. They recently got together to dissect the trends, snubs and outliers on the Times’s 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century list and to shed a few tears over their own top 10s, which are shared below.
FROM WESLEY MORRIS:
1. Norte, The End of History
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. The Piano Teacher
4. O.J.: Made in America
5. Wall-E
6. Moonlight
7. The Holy Girl
8. Inherent Vice
9. Love and Diane
10. Magic Mike XXL
FROM ERIC HYNES:
1. In the Mood for Love
2. The Act of Killing; The Look of Silence (tie)
3. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
4. The New World
5. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
6. Synecdoche, New York
7. Cameraperson
8. 35 Shots of Rum
9. Inside Llewyn Davis; A Serious Man (tie)
10. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
Cannonball with Wesley Morris
Conversations about the culture that moves us – the good, the bad and whatever’s in between. Every week, critic Wesley Morris talks with writers and artists about the moment we’re in. Surprisingly personal and never obvious, new episodes drop Thursdays.
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