1. Citizen Kane- Welles2. Bicycle Thieves- De Sica3. The Magnificent Ambersons- Welles4. The Third Man- Reed5. Casablanca- Curtiz6. It's a Wonderful Life- Capra7. The Big Sleep- Hawks8. Notorious- Hitchcock9. Rome, Open City- Rossellini10. Late Spring-
1. The Rules of the Game- Renoir2. City Lights- Chaplin3. M- Lang4. Gone With the Wind- Fleming5. Stagecoach- Ford6. The Blue Angel- von Sternberg7. The Wizard of Oz- Fleming8. The Grand Illusion- Renoir9. Bringing Up
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- Dreyer2. Sunrise- Murnau3. Intolerance- Griffith4. Battleship Potemkin- Eisenstein5. Metropolis- Lang6. Nosferatu- Murnau7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari- Wiene8. The Birth of a Nation- Griffith9. The General- Keaton10. The
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
