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Monday, February 16, 2009

Finally, A List Without Goldfish Memory


No we aren't talking about the ubiquity of a little Irish low-budget rom-com on movie lists (last time we checked it didn't quite make the Sight & Sound Top 10 movies of all time). What we are talking about is internet lists of Top 10 lists of movie lists about the top 10 death scenes involving a carrot as a weapon. Most of these lists have a cinematic memory akin to a goldfish or more likely, the exact length of the author's life minus about 7 years. In other words, the lazy list writers don't like watching those boring old movies in black & white. Eugh! Yuck! When's Michael Bay's next joint dropping? Anyone?

So here's a fairly inconsequential list of The Top Mind-fuck Movies Of All Time, which actually includes movies before 1982. The list probably isn't too exhaustive and I'm sure they left a number of key mind-fuckers off the chart (Un Chien Andalou anyone?) but we mainly posted it to bitch and moan about 'all-time' lists without a single black and white movie, not to mention the dreaded word 'foreign'.

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