John Waters.
Waters, John
1 THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodovar) A dark, twisted, beautiful,
and, yes, funny shocker from the greatest director in the world. God
bless you, Pedro Almodovar!
2 MILDRED PIERCE (Todd Haynes) This elegantly shot, pitch-perfect
made-for-TV melodrama makes everyone who watches secretly yearn to be a
woman with issues. The best period film in decades--period.
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3 JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER (Jon M. Chu) I'm not kidding.
A well-made doc that proves the Bieb was a child prodigy. Wait until you
see Justin stick his head into the audience and shake his hair in 3-D. I
screamed.
4 HADEWIJCH (Bruno Dumont) In this grim, fiercely uncommercial movie, a fanatical Catholic young lady from a rich family hooks up with
a handsome male Muslim terrorist, and together they blow up a commuter
train. Love is strange, especially when God is involved.
5 KABOOM (Gregg Araki) A sexy, well-written, end-of-the-world
comedy that succeeds beyond all expectation. Doomsday never looked so
hot.
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6 IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT (Marshall
Curry and Sam Cullman) This sad documentary debates the regrets of
radicalism as a pack Df lunatic-kid tree huggers get caught up in
frenzied activism and are suddenly accused 3y the government of
terrorism.
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7 THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick) You'd think I'd hate
this film, and I almost did--until I realized it's the best New
Age, heterosexual, Christian movie of the year.
8 I'M GLAD MY MOTHER IS ALIVE (Claude and Nathan Miller) This
beautifully acted French film is a tragic, harrowing warning to all
adoptees: Finding your real-life birth parents isn't always such a
good idea.
9 WE WERE HERE (David Weissman) Half my friends died of aids, so
this simple and painfully told doc on the disastrous epidemic's
effect on San Francisco is personal. If you don't sob watching,
maybe you should be dead too.
10 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (Apichatpong
Weerasethakul) A spooky, witty, never pretentious meditation on the
otherworldly lust of ghosts and wild animals. Aren't you glad art
films don't get test-screened?
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JOHN WATERS IS TOURING IN DECEMBER WITH HIS SPOKEN-WORD ACT A JOHN
WATERS CHRISTMAS.
