{"id":129963,"date":"2020-01-09T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T21:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=129963"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:39:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T17:39:51","slug":"bates-film-professor-jon-cavalleros-top-30-films-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/09\/bates-film-professor-jon-cavalleros-top-30-films-of-the-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates film professor Jon Cavallero’s top 30 films of the decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

In sharing his list of the top 30 films of the 2010s, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Jon Cavallero notes how such lists tend to “say at least as much about the critic as they do about the movies.”<\/p>\n

In that sense, the list reflects how, in recent years, the critic and his Bates students have been working to build a film community at Bates, including establishment of the annual Bates Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The list also reflects the critic\u2019s expertise, including film theory and criticism; race, gender, and international film, including Bollywood; and film history.<\/p>\n

\"Associate<\/a>

In 2014, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Film, and Screen Studies Jon Cavallero welcomes Stacey Kabat ’85, who in 1994 was part of the team that won an Academy Award for Defending Our Lives<\/em>, a documentary film that exposed the severity of domestic violence in the U.S. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n

A third-generation Italian American, the critic is the author of\u00a0Hollywood\u2019s Italian American Filmmakers: Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino<\/em> (University of Illinois Press, 2011). As a child, he recalls \u201coften looking to the movies and television for a sense of cultural definition.\u201d<\/p>\n

The list also reflects that the critic does have certain priorities above watching movies, which is why \u201cthere are few movies on the list from 2017. That was the year my wife, Kathryn, and I welcomed our son, Emmett, into the world!\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are Jon Cavallero’s top 30 films of the 2010s:<\/p>\n

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30. The Way<\/em> (Emilio Estevez, 2010)<\/a><\/h5>\n

I love father-son stories, and I love road stories. So, a father-son story written and directed by a son, Emilio Estevez, and starring his father, Martin Sheen (who in my eyes can do no wrong), about a journey they take together pretty much has me from the get-go.<\/p>\n