The Classics

Movies just aren't what they used to be. We all know that. We've all been victimized at some point or another by a guaranteed-to-be-entertaining mega blockbuster that gives you no bang even though you've already paid the ten bucks, or the arthouse film that plunges so deep into abstractness that even David Lynch throws up his hands in surrender. That's not to say there aren't what will one day be known as "classics" being made each and every year. Over the next few blog entries I'm going to take a look at what I deem to be truly great, classic, films made since the dawn of the new millenium. They may not yet have the intangible black and white charm of Casablanca, or the technicolor wonder of The Wizard of Oz, but if a film is truly great, all of that will come as enough years pass by.