Tuesday, June 17, 2008

I OBJECT, YOUR HONOR! THIS TRIAL IS A TRAVESTY. IT'S A TRAVESTY OF A MOCKERY OF A SHAM OF A MOCKERY OF A TRAVESTY OF TWO MOCKERIES OF A SHAM: This programming note: tonight is the night that every year CBS turns its airwaves over for three hours to the American Film Institute to reify a canon of 100 films that underrates the last twenty years, undervalues comedy, ignores the work of minority actors and generally does random weird things. But it's a list, and it's summer, and so we watch.

This year, they're not content to screw up one category of film, but are instead ranking 10 Top Tens in various genres -- "epics," mysteries, gangster films ("a genre that centers on organized crime or maverick criminals in a twentieth century setting"), romcoms, sports films, courtroom dramas and the like. You can see the lists of nominated films via this link (may require registration, but they don't spam), so feel free to predict now, and then we'll come back tonight to liveblog.

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