The 50 Best Teen Movies Of All Time
It seems that every year another fresh crop of filmmakers make their debut movies, and a high proportion are coming-of-age stories. A sadly low percentage, however, are any good, which is why this week brings u...
The 50 Best Animated Films Of The 21st Century So Far
It’s sort of remarkable, the ways that animation on the big screen has changed in the past two decades or so. In the early '90s, the game was pretty much entirely owned by Disney’s hand-drawn animated fairy tal...
‘Persepolis’ Directors Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud Line Up ‘Chicken With Plums’ With Mathieu Almaric
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, the team behind the excellent animated film "Persepolis," are back behind the camera, this time adapting Satrapi's illustrated novel "Chicken with Plums."The team’s first ...
The Best Animated Films Of The Decade
If ghettoizing was a concern with our Best Documentaries of the Decade list, you can be sure it's an even bigger one here. With the controversy surrounding the immensely patronizing Best Animated Feature catego...
‘Gomorrah’ Foreign Oscar Snub Outrage Continues
We weren't gigantic fans of Matteo Garrone's hyperlinked Italian crime drama "Gomorrah" (though we did like it), but with all the accolades and praise it earned this year (the Grand Prix award at Cannes and an ...
France Picks ‘The Class’ As Its Official Oscar Entry
France has had a banner year for films in 2008, but so much for strong films like, "A Secret," "Tell No One," "A Girl Cut in Two," or Philippe Claudel's "I’ve Loved You So Long" (one we haven't seen yet, but on...
The Playlists’ Top 10 Movies, Music & Whatnot Of The Year 2007 (Very Belated)
In general, or as we've become more, *cough* sage, we've come to find Top 10s very arbitrary and in a way, superficial. Don't you think the qualification of art is rather shallow?This is a bit of a familiar ran...
‘Persepolis’ And ‘Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days’ Snubbed By Foreign Oscars
Nine films are competing for Oscar contention in the Best Foreign Film category this year.63 films were submitted and inexplicably, two favored front-runners "Persepolis" and the 2007 Cannes Fest Palme d’Or win...
Random: Rolling Stones, Rogery Avary, Juice Crew Film Not Cast Yet
The Playlist was out sick today (waaaaah!), here's a smattering of semi-interesting things that happened in the last 24-48 hours.- Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones live concert documentary, "Shine A Light," wil...
Persepolis Soundtrack Due January 15; Features ‘Eye Of The Tiger’ Cover
We can say enough good thing about "Persepolis,"the animated feature film adapted from the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi (her four graphic novels, altogether have sold over one million copies throughout the...