“Unlike last year when, as a part-time film critic, I recklessly matched apples and pears (Stan Brakhage and Fred Silverman) for my ‘Ten Best,’ I’ve decided to experiment with a pair of separate but equal lists. The first is for films that don’t subscribe to narrative conventions; the second is for those that do. That is not a simple expertmental/commercial dichotomy but rather a question of film language…:
