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Home Entertainment Guide: September 2023
A guide to the latest and greatest on streaming and physical media, including Elemental, Past Lives, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and a Criterion edition of Moonage Daydream.
A guide to the latest and greatest on streaming and physical media, including Elemental, Past Lives, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and a Criterion edition of Moonage Daydream.
Director and cast of "Henry Gamble's Birthday Party"; Genius of Ornette Coleman; Richard Brody on "Heaven Knows What"; Critics flunk "Ferris Bueller"; "Inside Out" director Pete Docter.
Ow, my brain hurts. So, let's just get these out of the way, shall we? In the annual Village Voice/LA Weekly Film Poll, announced just before Christmas, 94 critics (including me) came up with 160 nominations for best films of 2009 -- and voted in a bunch of other categories, too, including Best Film of the Decade ("Mulholland Dr."). [My decade favorites are here.]
Meanwhile, Film Comment polled another big batch o' crix (a lot of the same ones, in fact) and came up with a somewhat different 20 Best of 2009 list -- and 150 Best Films of the Decade (topped by... "Mulholland Dr."). Just for fun, let us compare the two groups' Top Dozen for both year and decade:
