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My top 40 films from 1990 (an arbitrary beginning, just to keep things manageable) through this year, again without commentary … though yes, I’m aware of the discrepancy between this list and the last one: why put Wild at Heart ahead of Pulp Fiction if the Tarantino’s in your all-time top ten and Lynch’s film isn’t? One of the mysteries of context, I guess, since a priori I wouldn’t put Pulp at the absolute head of any list of faves, much as I do value it, and there are plenty of personal/formal reasons for my treating Wild as a cause celebre (a millennial appreciation I wrote for Cinema Scope magazine being first among them). Anyway, my feel-good accomplices for the better part of a generation: if the invocation of names, connotative syllables, decontextualized phrasing, etc, is ever an apt substitute for run-of-the-mill critical yammer, then … well, enjoy!
