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At this point, I guess most of you readers out there know that I don't eat to live – I live to eat. So it stands to reason that I've had a few dining experiences this year that have been especially memorable. Some of them appeared on Phillyist, and others did not. But gourmets and gourmands alike rejoice: they're all here, in all their mouth drooling glory.

When Richard Kelly's film Southland Tales was originally screened at Cannes, the buzz was extraordinarily negative. The word was that the movie was a great big mess - ridiculous and nonsensical. I didn't want to believe it. I really enjoyed Kelly's amazing indie/romance/sci-fi flick Donnie Darko. I thought maybe people were reacting to Southland Tales the way that some had reacted to The Fountain: they were confused by it because they hadn't looked hard enough...

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Now that I've seen it, I'm not surprised at the bad reception Darren Aronofsky's new film The Fountain received at some of the film festivals it played at and, indeed, at the screening I attended. A lot of people are not going to like it. A lot of people are going to be puzzled and confused and irritated by it - as many of my fellow audience members were. And if you go expecting a straightforward film, that you can sit back and enjoy without paying much attention to, you will be disappointed, as well. But if you go willing to do serious work putting the pieces together and interpreting the repeating themes and metaphors, you'll be rewarded with a beautiful, moving, sumptuous, intelligent, well thought out, and really amazing film that will open and unfold before your eyes like a blooming flower.

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