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Matt Bailey / contributor
Matt is a librarian and loves British female-led post-punk groups of the early 1980s.
Favorites
On 1/18/04 7:24 PM, “Matt Bailey” wrote:
I’m not submitting a list and would like to take this opportunity to announce my retirement from making lists of my favorite movies. In preparation for this feature, as I looked over the list I made just last year of my top twenty films, I realized that there were many films that I truly, honestly, and unabashedly love missing from the list, and in their place films that I might have put on the list simply because I felt they needed to be on the list. In attempting to rectify these injustices, I became even more conflicted. How could I quantify and compare the very different pleasures given to me by such diverse films as The Exorcist and Cleo from 5 to 7? Scorpio Rising and Twentieth Century? What possible rationale could I use to select one Luis Buñuel or Robert Bresson film over another? How would I reconcile my need to make a list that reflects the refined taste of someone who writes on film and has an advanced degree in the field with the fact that Don Knotts makes me laugh really, really hard and that I’ve seen Auntie Mame somewhere around 25 times? How do I finalize something that will remain static and public for some time to come when, in reality, it changes every day? How do I defend a list against criticism when I am perhaps the person most critical of it? The more I looked at my list, the more I realized that the answer to all of these questions is, “I can’t.” So, I’m throwing in the towel. I like what I like and I don’t feel a need to quantify and qualify it. I’m not saying that making lists isn’t fun or worthwhile. It’s just that I am no longer mentally prepared to tell Murnau or Antonioni that they didn’t make the cut this time around.
Matt
Recent Screening Log Entries / 95 total /View All
| Unfaithfully Yours | 14 Sep 2005 11:16 PM |
| Lenny | 14 Sep 2005 11:59 AM |
| They Died with Their Boots On | 11 Sep 2005 11:15 PM |
| The Holy Girl | 10 Sep 2005 10:17 PM |
| Three on a Match | 31 Aug 2005 11:20 PM |
| Clash by Night | 29 Aug 2005 11:06 PM |
Recent Reviews / 118 total /View All
| A Warning to the Curious | 08 Oct 2007 3:00 AM |
| Le Silence de la mer | 23 Jul 2007 9:07 AM |
| Mouchette | 22 Jan 2007 5:58 PM |
| The Curse of the Crying Woman | 03 Oct 2006 11:44 PM |
| Walking and Talking | 03 Jul 2006 12:32 PM |
| The Birds | 30 Oct 2005 11:29 PM |
Recent Features / 12 total /View All
| 2007 in review | 30 Dec 2007 2:44 AM |
| 31 Days of Horror | 31 Oct 2007 12:13 AM |
| 2006 in Review | 31 Dec 2006 3:48 PM |
| Chick Flicks | 25 Jul 2006 2:14 PM |
| 2005 in review | 31 Dec 2005 4:43 PM |
| The Best DVDs of 2004 | 09 Jan 2005 5:38 PM |
Recent Comments / 33 total /View All
| An Interview with Frederick Wiseman | 01 Jul 2008 9:57 PM |
| Leave Her to Heaven | 27 Aug 2007 8:39 PM |
| Le Silence de la mer | 27 Aug 2007 8:20 PM |
| In Praise of Pixar | 10 Jul 2007 5:28 PM |
| The Barkleys of Broadway | 04 Jan 2007 11:44 PM |
| Little Children | 23 Dec 2006 1:31 AM |