Posted: 01/15/03

Laura's Film Guide, 2002
by Laura Abraham
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When the higher ups at Film Monthly contacted me to say they needed a top 10 list for 2002, I thought I had died and gone to heaven! Someone wanted to know what I liked at the theater! I was going to look back through the year and pick some great things. Tons of people, and I mean TONS, were going to read my picks and see me for the film buff I am. Then? I realized I hated most of the films I saw in 2002. They sucked. 2002 was the dirty diaper of years, in terms of film. I pulled together my list, as best I could. I offer it to you now:

Sex y Lucia - super cool. Super circular. Super interesting. Super sexy.

Y Tu Mama Tambien - Hot, hot hot. Saw it four times

Powerpuff Girls - They came to save the world, or at least cinema in 2002

Bowling for Columbine - Damn, we love some guns in this country.

8 Mile - Detroit ain't cool, gangsta, or hip. We are just poor and cold.

Frida - Loved this more than I can say. Of course, it needed to be in Spanish. Duh.

Undercover Brother - heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

The Importance of Being Earnest - witty dialogue.

Fast Runner - made me cold just watching it.

Bartleby - You would like a description, however, I would prefer not to.

There you have it. If the year had been better I would have written more. As it is, this is all anyone deserves because, frankly, the year in film sucked my big toe. Or better yet, sucked my husband's bacteria-infected toe. Filmmakers? Get some decent writers and try again next year. Until then, I'm at the beach.

Laura Abraham is a freelance living in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is about 20 minutes outside Detroit.


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