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 The best of 2004 ?

Every year, the KFS likes to offer you a compendium of opinions as to the best films distributed the previous year.
We'd like to think that, in our own Little Theatre sort of way, we've helped broaden the cinematic horizons by doing our part to bring at least a few of these titles to town.
If you'd like to submit your Top Ten titles to this page (with or without your name) we'd be delighted to add them.  We're sure the world would be equally delighted to see your selections as well.

Thanks for making us part of your groove scene.

 

Jacob Ziegler  /  411mania.com
 1.  Million Dollar Baby
 2.  Sideways
 
3.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 
4.  Kill Bill, Vol. 2
 
5.   Kinsey
 
6.  The Aviator
 
7.  Hotel Rwanda
 
8.  Baadasssss!
 
9.  Ray
10. Garden State

Richard Schickel  /  Time Magazine
 1.  The Aviator
 2.  Million Dollar Baby
 3.  Vera Drake
 4.  The Inheritance
 5.  Kitchen Stories
 6.  Collateral
 7.  Maria, Full of Grace
 8.  Kinsey
 9.  The Woodsman
10. Sideways

 

Roger Ebert

 1.  Million Dollar Baby
 2.  Kill Bill, Vol. 2
 3.  Vera Drake
 4.  Spiderman 2
 5.  Moolaade
 6.  The Aviator
 7.  Baadasssss!

 8.  Sideways
 9.  Hotel Rwanda
10. Undertow

 

 

A.O. Scott  /  The New York Times

 1.  Moolaade

 2.  Goodbye Dragon Inn

 3.  Tarnation

 4.  Million Dollar Baby

 5.  Kinsey

 6.  The Big Red One: The Restoration

 7.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 8.  Tokyo Godfathers

 9.  The Incredibles

10. Fahrenheit 9/11

 

 

Tom Long   /  The Detroit News

 1.  Before Sunset

 2.  Finding Neverland

 3.  Sideways

 4.  Kill Bill, Vol. 2

 5.  Garden State

 6.  A Very Long Engagement

 7.  Kinsey

 8.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 9.  Hero

10. The Aviator

 

 

Ken Tucker  /  New York Magazine

 1.  How to Draw a Bunny

 2.  Collateral

 3.  House of Flying Daggers

 4.  Sideways

 5.  The Incredibles

 6.  A Very Long Engagement

 7.  Kill Bill, Vol. 2

 8.  Fahrenheit 9/11

 9.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

10. End of the Century-Story of The Ramones

 

Rex Reed  /  New York Observer
 1.  Million Dollar Baby
 2.  Kinsey
 3.  Sideways
 4.  Bad Education
 5.  Fahrenheit 9/11
 6.  A Home at the End of the World
 7.  Ray
 8.  Open Water
 9.  The Assassination of Richard Nixon
10. The Motorcycle Diaries

Stephen King

 1.  Maria Full of Grace
 2. 
Dawn of the Dead
 3. 
Manchurian Candidate
 4. 
Fahrenheit 9/11
 5. 
Harry Potter 
 6. 
Shrek2 
 7. 
The Incredibles 
 8. 
Collateral
 9. 
 
Bourne Supremacy
10.
 
Red Lights

 

David Sterritt  /  The Christian Science Monitor
 1.  Dogville
 2.  In The Realms of the Unreal
 3.  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
 4.  Notre Musique
 5.  The Saddest Music in the World
 6.  Sideways
 7.  Fahrenheit 9/11
 8.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 9.  The Assassination of Richard Nixon
10. Million Dollar Baby

 

Newsweek Magazine

 1.  Sideways

 2.  Before Sunset

 3.  Osama

 4.  Million Dollar Baby

 5.  Bad Education

 6.  The Aviator

 7.  Friday Night Lights

 8.  The Manchurian Candidate

 9.  Harry Potter-Prisoner of Azkaban

10. Kinsey

 

Ruthie Stein  /  San Francisco Chronicle

 1.  Hotel Rwanda
 2.  Ray
 3.  Million Dollar Baby
 4.  A Very Long Engagement
 5.  Before Sunset
 6.  Sideways
 7.  Maria, Full of Grace
 8.  Kinsey

 9.  The Aviator

10. Bad Education

 

 

Brian Miller  /  Seattle Weekly

 1.  Vera Drake

 2.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 3.  The Aviator 

 4.  Blind Shaft

 5.  Kinsey

 6.  Mean Creek

 7.  Before Sunset

 8.  The Incredibles

 9.  Maria, Full of Grace

10. Touching the Void

 

 

Phoebe Flowers  /  The Orlando Sun-Sentinel
 1.  Dogville
 2.  The Incredibles
 3.  Before Sunset
 4.  Spanglish
 5.  Sideways
 6.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 7.  Tarnation
 8.  A Very Long Engagement
 9.  The Door in the Floor
10. Garden State

 

 

Noel Murray  /  The Onion

 1.  I Heart Huckabees

 2.  The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

 3.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 4.  The Incredibles

 5.  Crimson Gold

 6.  Sideways

 7.  Slasher

 8.  Vera Drake

 9.  Kill Bill, Vol. 2

10. Red Lights

 

Owen Glieberman  /  Entertainment Weekly

 1.  Million Dollar Baby
 2.  Sideways
 3. 
The Incredibles
 4. 
Maria Full of Grace
 5. 
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 6. 
The Return
 7. 
Moolade
 8. 
Collateral
 9. 
The Aviator
10.
Bright Leaves

 

 

 

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December film festivals...

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

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 Links ...

Trailer for
"2046"

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Bob Mondello audio review of "2046"

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Kalamazoo Valley Museum Film Series
(be sure to check out their excellent "Holiday Films" series)

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Our 2005 films...
which was your
favorite ?

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The Western Film Society

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Grand Rapids UICA

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Detroit Institute of Arts -
December films

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 kalamazooMI.com

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