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The New Yorker on the decade’s best films – huh?!
By Jay A. Fernandez
For those of you looking for the condescending fury provoked by the typical quixotic New Yorker cartoon caption, click here for one of the esteemed rag’s prose equivalents.
Scott Foundas would find this list too obscure. Nearly all the films are foreign language. But one of the few English-speaking movies to make film blogger Richard Brody’s top ten is — wait for it… — “Knocked Up.”
No, not the porn Pixar parody. He means Judd Apatow’s comedy from 2007.
I have to admit, mixed in with images from “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood” I often find myself re-admiring that climactic giving-each-other-pink-eye-with-pillow-farts repartee from “Knocked Up.”
Brody admits he hasn’t seen many films in the last decade (and I admit I’ve seen fewer than, say, eight of those on his list), but perhaps Brody should re-read this from the NY’er archives.













