#311: Our 2021 Top 10s, Part 2

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Our look back at 2021 in film concludes with Tasha, Keith, and Scott’s picks for films number five through one on their respective top 10 lists—or at least their top 10s as they stood at the tail end of December. All three acknowledge that the year offered several quality releases that on any other given day might have made their way onto one of these lists, but for the overlapping factors of time, availability, and the inherently mercurial nature of annual list-making. And so they also dig into the films they weren’t able to see in time for this episode, as well as the honorable mentions that just missed the cut. If you have thoughts you’d like to share on our picks, your picks, or anything else about the past year in film, you can send an email to [email protected] or leave a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:05.1	Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:11.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:18.8	Welcome back to the next picture show, which is usually a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release, but we're breaking from format in order to do our top 10 movies of the year.
0:31.1	This is part two of our top 10 movies of the year discussion, and I'm here with Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias.
0:37.3	To run down the movies that we loved
0:39.8	this year, the movies of the challenge just and excited us and maybe got us to theaters or maybe
0:45.3	didn't get us to theaters depending on whether it was even playing in theaters and under what
0:49.4	circumstances. Our producer Genevieve is sitting at home with a gigantic stack of movies that she still has to get through,
0:57.0	and she will be joining us again on a future episode.
1:00.8	So we talked a little bit about sort of the difficulty of figuring out when exactly a movie came out.
1:07.4	I kind of had that trouble, I've got to say, with licorice pizza, which I saw at a
1:12.1	critic screening like a month before release. And then it just seems like it dribbled into maybe
1:18.4	two new theaters a week for like two months. It feels like it's still in the very beginning of
1:24.1	first release now. And under those circumstances, it can be very difficult to make
1:28.8	it even to movies that are being critically celebrated out of Sundance or Cannes or Toronto or
1:36.2	wherever it is. It can be hard to catch even the movies that we most want to see when we get a pile of
1:43.0	400 screening links and screeners
1:45.3	at the very end of the year. So we wanted to kind of start off this half, this top half of
1:50.7	our top 10 lists by just giving a little mention to movies that we really, really wish we'd
1:57.2	be able to make time for and haven't gotten to yet, we'll probably get you
2:01.5	just immediately after this episode. I, for one, can say I was literally an hour into drive my car.
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