And of course, I couldn't let today go by without posting a list of my own ten favorite movies:

1. Blue Velvet (d. David Lynch)
2. Chungking Express (d. Wong Kar-Wai)
3. The Third Man (d. Carol Reed)
4. The Red Shoes (d. The Archers)
5. Vertigo (d. Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Eyes Wide Shut (d. Stanley Kubrick)
7. Casablanca (d. Michael Curtiz)
8. Citizen Kane (d. Orson Welles)
9. L.A. Confidential (d. Curtis Hanson)
10. The Last Temptation of Christ (d. Martin Scorsese)

And my greatest shame as a critic and human being is that I still haven't seen The Rules of the Game. I should do something about that.