My Top 11 Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)

If you can't tell, I am a movie buff, and this will no doubt be reflected in my blog. As I mentioned in my introduction to this blog, while I will primarily be writing about education and policy topics, I will not rule out talking about non-education/policy related subjects. This will include movies. While this list may be of no particular interest to anyone else who reads this blogs, I have none-the-less presented here my top movies of the decade. And yes, I did choose 11. Why? Because 10 just wasn't good enough.

11) Wall-E (2008)
10) The Corporation (2004)
9) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
8) The Dark Knight (2008)
7) Traffic (2000)
6) Children of Men (2006)
5) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
4) Munich (2005)
3) Borat (2006)
2) There Will Be Blood (2007)
1) City of God (2003)





















I will probably do a top films of 2009 list as well, but, I will probably wait until around Oscar season until I have had the chance to see a few more films.

"Glengarry Glen Ross": 4th Grade Edition

Here is a funny post with Alec Baldwin's character doing his famous "Always Be Closing" speech to a 4th grade class doing a magazine subscription fundraiser. It also gives me an excuse to show the famous speech from the great movie below. It is truly one of the greatest monologues in the history of modern film. WARNING: lots of profanity in both versions.

RIP: Kim Peek

Kim Peek was a savant: someone with severe developmental disabilities, who is actually quite brilliant in one or more areas. Kim was severely intellectually disabled, but could remember details massive amounts of details from books that he would read. He became famous because he was the influence for Dustin Hoffman's character in the award-winning movie Rain Man. Kim Peek was an extraordinary individual, indeed.

The video below I found from YouTube about Kim Peek. It appears to be from a British documentary, and gives some more detail on his life. It appears to be part of a series, which I haven't watched yet. Just type in "Kim Peek" into YouTube search engine and they should show up.