Short Takes for Weekend Procrastination

For those who often find themselves at the video store frantic in the knowledge that there are a dozen movies they want to see and that they can't remember a single one, printing out this list could keep you from defaulting to Office Space yet again. In 1993, which they decided was the hundredth anniversary of cinema, the Vatican published a list of the 45 best, or most important, or something, films. I was impressed by the number of foreign films included until I remembered that the curia, while ecclesial, is hardly a parochial body. There are interesting films suggested from the various home nations of at least a dozen cardinals, as well as a bunch of those English-language classics (like Gandhi and Citizen Kane) you've always been meaning to watch some day. Plus, at least as common as the what-to-rent dilemma is the struggle to balance one's own highbrow tastes (of course) with the desire not to embarass one's young cousins, elderly parents, or other movie-watching companions to prurient footage. With this list, you don't have to worry!

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