E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Eyewear 's favourite film has been Vertigo for some time ( see my post from four years ago ).  How could it not be?  The fetishism, scopophilia, love-death soundtrack, high romance, and melancholia of desire all make it grist for my mill.  So though I love Welles and his Kane , the news that Sight & Sound 's once-a-decade critics poll has finally moved Hitch 's greatest film to top place - a vertiginous place - is news to celebrate.

Good news.   The   Tree of Life has been chosen by Sight & Sound 's critics poll as the top art house film of 2011.   Eyewear saw it this summer and loved it.

The June issue of Sight & Sound has selected 75 "mainstream marvels of the last 30 years" - commercial films that deserve more critical appreciation or notice.  I was glad to see a few of my favourites among the list, such as Excalibur, Deep Cover, Unlawful Entry, The Runaways, The Bounty, Breakdown, Femme Fatale, Footloose, Jennifer's Body , and Tombstone .  I have to question the inclusion of The Devil Wears Prada , which seems to me to be an obvious classic already. Several key mainstream marvels could also be added to this list of 75 (for the full list get a copy of the magazine), such as Killing Zoe ,  Looker , Nacho Libre ,  Congo , Don't Say A Word , The Rainmaker , and JFK .