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Pic of the Day: “All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take ’em to Harlem. I don’t care. Don’t make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won’t even take spooks. Don’t make no difference to me.”
Hey, look! An Update!
The Top Ten lists will be back in a few weeks because I, unlike my many protestations to the contrary, am not perfect.
This has been a pretty hit and miss year-plus for me. I went through periods of being able to knock out dozens of articles, and then periods where I needed to stop for like two months because I had no time to get stuff done. Thus is sort of the case with the Top Ten lists. Read the rest of this page »
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Pic of the Day: “What’s the ending of the ice fishing story?” “I’m not telling you the end of the ice fishing story!” “I’m going to call your fuckin’ brother to find out the end.” “My brother’s dead!” “That’s how it ends! He fell through the fuckin’ ice!” “No, that’s not… He died a different way, many years later!”
Mike’s Top Ten of 1950-1959
The 50s feels like a very insular decade. That is to say, it feels like a decade that is mostly unaffected by the outside world. At least, not the way the 30s and 40s were. The 30s is highly impacted by both the advancement of technology and complete upheaval of the norms of the silent era to sound, as well as the Depression. The 40s was obviously impacted by the war. But the 50s — what is there? Rock ‘n’ roll? TV? There are minor things that will affect certain pockets of the films, but overall, this feels like a decade that’s pure studio filmmaking.
This list was the toughest yet. Not so much in the first ten (though once you get to 8-10, you can easily swap them out for 3-4 other movies, easily). And 11-20 was just brutal. There’s so much stuff I wish I could have also included on this list. But, hey, that’s what happens. You gotta make the tough decisions. It only means there’s a lot of great stuff that’s on the actual lists that you should look at.
For methodology purposes, the way I compile these Top Tens of the Decade lists: I take my top ten for each year of the decade, throw them all together, and simply whittle it down until I find what I feel are my ten favorites from that decade. Not the best, my favorite. That’s really all it is. I feel like if I can figure out what my favorite films of all time are, then I can figure it out by specific decades. Read the rest of this page »
