1. Citizen Kane- Welles 2. Bicycle Thieves- De Sica 3. The Magnificent Ambersons- Welles 4. The Third Man- Reed 5. Casablanca- Curtiz 6. It's a Wonderful Life- Capra 7. The Big Sleep- Hawks 8. Notorious-
1. The Rules of the Game- Renoir 2. City Lights- Chaplin 3. M- Lang 4. Gone With the Wind- Fleming 5. Stagecoach- Ford 6. The Blue Angel- von Sternberg 7. The Wizard of Oz- Fleming
An engaging and detailed docudrama proceduralHoward Shore does great work here with his subtle scoreAcademy Award winner for best picture and screenplay and that—and the acting- are the strengths of the film—I’m not dying to
Dirk Bogarde is fantastic- not only a dual role (they didn’t really have these in 1959 like we see with Dead Ringers, Adaptation and so many others more contemporary cinema – I guess Alec Guinness
1.0- October 2018 electricity on the stage thanks to Aronofsky's DP Matthew Libatique and raw intimacy in the dramatic off-stage scenes thanks to two (or three if you count sam elliott) powerhouse performances (tremendous moment
I think only now with the hindsight of McKay’s established style in The Big Short and Vice is Anchorman archiveableLike the rest of his work this has a ridiculous quote in the prologueWe have cameos
A Biblical parable—a film of two halves that reminded me of the work of Ermanno Olmi, Bertolucci, Walt Disney, Bresson, Being There and Apichatpong WeerasethakulShot on 16mmRural first half—grounded in neo-realism with hardships, unprofessional extras
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc- Dreyer 2. Sunrise- Murnau 3. Intolerance- Griffith 4. Battleship Potemkin- Eisenstein 5. Metropolis- Lang 6. Nosferatu- Murnau 7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari- Wiene 8. The Birth of
It’s British New Wave (clearly Richardson from Look Back in Anger, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) taking on some of the style of the French New Wave- mainly TruffautOne of the best edited films
A meditation on isolation and celebrity that has to be seen in the context of Sofia’s brilliant oeuvre. These are hermetically-sealed worlds- Virgin Suicides, The Beguiled-- privilege- Bling Ring, Marie Antoinette Opens with a metaphor
Emma Stone (1)- Stone would be number one on this list if we combined both male and female and it feels like it’s been a long time since you could say that. In the past five
Ryan Gosling (1)- Gosling’s addition of First Man is enough to keep him here. It’s not one of the best performances of the year—but it’s solid, and the other heavy-hitters, DiCaprio, DDL can’t overtake him as
