best film: American Hustle best performance: Silver Linings Playbook. This one actually isn’t easy. I think you could make a case for Winter’s Bone as well and on a per-minute screen-time average it could be American
I’m confident it’s his weakest screenplay but the visuals are extremely strong—any critic that is talking about how their tastes don’t mesh with Anderson’s humor baffle me—I don’t see how they can’t admire the visuals
It’s Anderson’s first real attempt at a diorama (NYC apartment here) and then we’d have a boat (life aquatic), train (Darjeeling), hotel (grand budapest). It’s a dazzling exploration and launch for his creative brilliance regarding
best film: Frances Ha best performance : Frances Ha stylistic innovations/traits: Gerwig is a talented actresses and comedian who came to rise with Baumbach’s three films in the 2010’s. Her best work to date is Frances Ha
best film: Howard’s End. best performance : Howard’s End. stylistic innovations/traits: One-time wife and muse of Branagh may have never been in a masterpieces but is in 13 archiveable films and counting (which is a lot)
best film: Sunset Boulevard best performance : Sunset Boulevard stylistic innovations/traits: Swanson was a silent star (though I haven’t seen more than one archiveable film of hers from that era) and then Wilder took that premise (along
best film: Raging Bull best performance : Raging Bull stylistic innovations/traits: This one is brief with one film. She’s not alone on this list (Maria Falconetti and Bjork to come). Falconetti created a problem because she has
best film: The Godfather best performance : The Godfather Part II stylistic innovations/traits: Shire is in iconic (and justifiably so) films: The Godfather films and The Rocky films. Even though it is a limited archiveable filmography she
It’s far from his first film, and he’s had stronger narratives/characters before and more laughs before- but for me this is the beginning of Ozu as a high-level auteur with his use of editing—specifically cutaways
Bottle Rocket was Anderson’s debut but Rushmore is the loud ringing announcement of a major film artist Schwartzman, in his debut, is dazzling and shockingly confident—certainly he looks like a young Dustin Hoffman and the
A strong film- certainly in the archives and closer to the top 10 of 1989 than the bottom of the archives but I think the 3rd strongest of the films- certainly visually Bond and Indiana
Certainly darker than the original (and Last Crusade) but it doesn’t let up on the spectacular set pieces Even more than the 1981 masterpiece this is influenced by India and Gunga Din The opening in
