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Top 10 of the Decade List Time: Surfing the Zeitgeist.
2009-11-10 20:00:01
Welcome to the end of the decade (unless you're one of those "decades start in the year one, not zero" cranks). More specifically, welcome to the end of the decade as seen by every publication wanting to list the aughts' best films. The rundown from the UK's The Times is a peculiarly schizophrenic juxtaposition of highbrow, middlebrow and pop hits: it's probably the only list you'll see "L'Enfant," "There Will Be Blood" and "Anchorman" placed in sequence. Number two is the duo of "The Bourne Ultimatum"/"The Bourne Supremacy"; number one is "Caché." In praising "Caché," The Times inadvertently reveals the dangers of praising something based solely on zeitgeist-y extrapolation: "The film's twin themes resonate perfectly with the defining concerns of the time: tacit national guilt about a questionable foreign policy, in the film it's France's occupation of Algeria, but it's not hard to piece together the parallels with more recent...
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