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2011 Twitter Awards
2011 Twitter Awards: News. I wouldn’t see the world in the same way if it wasn’t for your stories and insights. Thank you!
2011 Twitter Awards: Film
2011 Twitter Awards: Film. Thanks for your passion, insight and keeping my netflix queue completely out of control.
2011 Twitter Awards: STL, News, Film, Int’l, & Personality
2011 Twitter Awards: Personality. I look forward to your tweets like getting a text from a friend. Thanks for making me smile!
- @marcmack
- @joshkornbluth
- @maggiewelker
- @bonjourabientot
- @echoana
- @seska
- @jdeadly
- @beestapler
- @priyavinz
- @shteyngart
Best Films I’ve seen in 2011 (not exclusively films released in 2011)
1) Five Easy Pieces
Jack Nicholson abandons his car to play piano in the back of a moving truck in Five Easy Pieces
2) Melancholia
3) The Beaver
4) Seven Samuari & Ikiru — Kurosawa
5) Winter’s Bone
6) Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
7) Zelig
8) If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
9) L’Eclisse & L’Avventura — Antonioni
10) Street Days
In addition to seeing some films that rocked my world, like Melancholia and Five Easy Pieces, I have discovered famous directors Antonioni and Kurosawa. I have the DVDs of extras in my Netflix queue for the films I reference in my list — and loads more of their films for 2012.
My infatuation with the Romanian New Wave continues with, If I want to Whistle, I Whistle. These films seem so stripped down to the basics that it adds a directness to these films of the soul.
The two comedies on the list are Woody Allen’s Zelig and The Beaver, what they have in common is courage: courage to take a stupid idea all the way to genius.
Michelangelo Antonioni, director of Italian classics L'Avventura & L'Eclisse
Melancholia Film Review
Melancholia, a film by director Lars van Trier, is the antidote to reality TV. If reality TV is a modern melodrama, Melancholia turns those shop worn roles against the viewer. Reality TV reinforces your expectations; Melancholia on the other hand, is a lens that makes you see the world in a completely unexpected way.
Looking at Melancholia
The story takes place at a country manor and
2011 Top 5 in STL Arts
Here is the St. Louis Post- Dispatch 2011 Arts Round-Up — overall it seems we agree on the 2011 St Louis Arts headlines
1) Cliff Froehlich, Director Cinema St. Louis
2) Missouri Arts Council
3) Paul Ha, Former Director of the Contemporary Art Museum
4) Ivy Cooper, Arts Writer St. Louis Beacon
5) Kemper Art Museum
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Top 10 TV Shows of 2011
2) BBCAmerica Six Nations Rugby & Pre-Game Show
3) Fox NFL Today
4) LinkTV Al Jazeera English live feed of Tahrir Square
5) Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria, CNN
6) Masterpiece Theater PBS
7) Gavin & Stacey, BBC America
8) Pan-Am
9) Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations, Travel Channel & DirectTV Audience Network
10) NFC & AFC Playbook, NFL Network 
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2012 Preview — STL Arts Top 5
1) Governor Jay Nixon
2) St. Louis Art Museum
3) Kristina van Dyke, Pulitzer Museum
4) Delmar, Cherokee, Washington Ave, et al.
5) What are your thoughts on the St. Louis Arts story to watch in 2012?
Here are my thoughts on the SVO1905 nominations of STL art stories to watch in 2012…
Sticky Note Christmas Tree
This is my own (modest) version of the post-it wars in Paris that the Guardian reported on earlier this year.
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