Tag: High Fidelity

• Favorite Films of 2000

  I’m creating my movie best-of lists retroactively. See all of them. As usual with this silly but enjoyable series, I started by consulting my logbook for all the movies from 2000 I’ve seen. That initial list of 36 films had some pretty easy cuts (Men of Honor, My Dog Skip) and plenty of titles I…

  Jul 21, 2022

  # Almost Famous, best of, film, Frequency, High Fidelity, lists, movies, Return to Me, Unbreakable

• A list of movies

  A friend tagged me in one of those Facebook chain-letter things, which I usually ignore but this one was about movies so why not. (Posting here to avoid giving Facebook free content to exploit.) Movie I hate: Slumdog Millionaire Movie I love: October Sky Movie I think is overrated: The Shape of Water Movie I…

  Apr 24, 2019

  # Back to the Future, film, Hell Or High Water, High Fidelity, lists, movies

• Which movie changed you?

  On Being—a top-5 podcast for me—has a new offshoot podcast called This Movie Changed Me, with “one fan talking about the transformative power of one movie.” So far they’ve featured Star Wars: A New Hope, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and You’ve Got Mail. It made me think about what mine would be. The quick and easy…

  Mar 13, 2018

  # Back to the Future, film, High Fidelity, It’s A Wonderful Life, life, movies, On Being, This Movie Changed Me

• Best Films of the 2000s

  The Lives of Others (2006) – A German film about a surveillance expert who spies on a playwright in Communist Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign film at the Oscars and for good reason. Unbearably suspenseful and surprisingly moving, The Lives of Others shows that…

  Dec 30, 2009

  # best of, Children of Men, film, High Fidelity, In America, lists, Memento, movies, Once, review, The Lives of Others, Unbreakable, WALL-E, Zodiac