Linda's Best of 2001

Top Ten Movies of 2001:

You really can't get any more gorgeous than Wong Kar-Wai's exquisite In the Mood For Love, Linda's choice for best movie of 2001.

The most fun I had at a movie all year:

The Sound of Music Sing-Along

The "were we at the same movie?" award:

A.I. (Linda kinda liked it, Kerri loathed it)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Linda: "What the f...???", Kerri: "Woo-hoo!")

Hands-down, the best kick-ass soundtrack in years:

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

As Britney would say, She's not that innocent!

I've always wanted to slap her, but hearing about her getting slapped with handcuffs was even better (i.e. "The single greatest celebrity news of the year" award):

Winona Ryder, getting arrested for shoplifting

Best child actor:

Little Nicholas in The Others (did anyone else notice he had no eyebrows?)

Yay! for good kids' movies:

Spy Kids
Monsters, Inc.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Shrek

Yay! for documentaries:

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale
Sound and Fury
Trembling Before G-d

Most scrumptiously adorable:

Ewan MacGregor in Moulin Rouge
Audrey Tautou in Amelie

The best dancing with wild abandon I have EVER seen on film:

Young Hansel doing a jig on his bed in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

The action figure I would most like for my birthday:

A "life-sized" hobbit doll of Elijah Wood from Lord of the Rings, that I can cradle under my jacket when I walk through snow, sling over my shoulder when he's sick, catch in my arms when he falls, and... well... some other things, too. (ahem!)

ABBA's "Thank You For the Music" award:

Together, for using ABBA's "S.O.S." so well that it made me cry. Not that the song doesn't make me cry anyways. Oh.

Movie I most enjoyed... before I saw it:

The Fast and the Furious, thanks to my friend Stephanie's, um, "passionate" re-enactment of several key scenes of the film while at a party this summer.

Grossest marketing campaign:

Pearl Harbor's DVD release—a lame Hollywood blockbuster advertised as a Commemorative 60th Anniversary Edition DVD, in "honor" of the heroes of the real historical event, playing up to the emotions of America's new post-September-11th patriotism. Shame on the film studio.

The "Billy Bob is the greatest thing since sliced bread" award goes to:

Billy Bob Thornton, because of The Man Who Wasn't There, and the fact that I finally saw Sling Blade this year and think it is one of the most freakin' fantastic movies I've ever seen.

Reinforced my interest in becoming an embalmer:

Cutie-pie caretaker Tyler Cassity and the Hollywood Forever cemetery in The Young and the Dead

Laura Elena Haring is a babe, but Mulholland Drive sucked.

Schwing!:

Goran Visjnic in The Deep End
Laura Elena Haring in Mulholland Drive
Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in In the Mood For Love

The "what a bloated load of self-indulgent crap" award goes to:

Mulholland Drive

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