The actor: Jesse Eisenberg The character: Mark Zuckerberg The film: The Social Network The line: “If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.” When I started working on this list, my guess was that The Social Network would lead the league in quotes. It’s really a great screenplay, from structure to… Read More Top 100 American Movie Quotes of the 21st Century: #27
In the latest edition of our conversations, Matt and I bring friend and former roommate of the podcast Josh aboard to talk about my recently completed “Better than the Oscars” project. We did chat about it, though we predictably spread the conversation a little wider than my ranking and write-ups. What follows is a lightly… Read More Baumann and Burch Conversations #7: Better than the Oscars Recap and Discussion
The following is from my series of Oscar Best Picture rankings, as well as my strongly worded suggestions for what should have won from among the nominees. For an introduction to the project, click here. For a way to vote on some Oscar-related ideas, click here. If I’ve written a review on any of the… Read More Better than the Oscars: 80-76
The following is part of an overview of the top 100 American narrative fiction feature films, from my perspective. For an introduction to the project and an index of other entries in the series, click here. For a list of more than 800 films which I considered for the top 450 and my eligibility qualifications, click here.… Read More Better than AFI’s Top 100: 95-91
Seeing Things Secondhand 