Ten Best
Briefly Annotated
Last month, the New York Times ranked its 100 best films of the 21st century with an invitation for readers to rank their ten best. Here are my ten best, presented in no particular order (except for the first).
Fallen Leaves, dir. Aki Kaurismäki (2023)
This is one of my favorite films, full stop. It may be my favorite film. The Finnish director Kaurismäki is one of the very best at feelings on the screen. His characters are always narrowly drawn, but they manage to take up all the space allotted to them. Also, Kaurismäki loves dogs. I love dogs!