Everyone loves lists! I find myself making lists but my mind wanders. I start thinking about other things related to what I’m making a list about and pretty soon, I’m off making cheese or buying dance shoes on the internet. But, I got an email from the folks at Coffee and Celluloid about a new list they put together, 25 Movies About Music You Haven’t Seen. Besides the pretentious title and absurd assumption that we won’t have seen at least some of the movies on their list, it’s actually a good list of films and their post has accompanying YouTube vids if you are interested.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Stop Making Sense would be on my top films of all time list, and there are some other gems like The Blues Brothers, The Last Waltz, Woodstock and Pink Floyd’s The Wall. I’m not sure Pump Up the Volume or Velvet Goldmine would make mine, but they are definitely worth watching. Thanks to Patrick Stafford for the tip.

Mark over at Docsider also pointed to a recent Vanity Fair list of their Top 25 Documentaries. I feel bad for publications that are mass market fare trying to delve into a complicated topic like documentary. There is no way they can win with movie people, but if you are wondering what docs should be in your Netflix queue, this is a good place to start. Take their audience award poll while you are at it.

I can’t claim to be a Miranda July fan; I’m not that familiar with her work. She was a Renew Media Fellow, so I’ve heard her name a few times in the course of my work there, and consequently added her film, Me and You and Everyone We Know to my Netflix queue. I have to admit to being beautifully blown away by the film.

Sure, different films hit you in certain ways depending on where you are in your own life. The first time I saw The Piano, I was so grossed out by the sight of Harvey Keitel naked, that the entire film was lost on me. Fast forward a few lonely years later, and the movie hit me like a ton of bricks (in a good way).

There’s a lot of blog press these days with The New Talkies: Generation DIY opening this week in New York. Besides making interesting films, the “mumblecore” filmmakers are a charismatic group so it isn’t hard to support them and talk about the cultural vein they have tapped into (read Matt Dentler’s First Person at indieWIRE). Their work touches on similar themes found in July’s 2005 film.