1. Breaking the Waves - von Trier 2. Goodfellas - Scorsese3. Pulp Fiction - Tarantino 4. The Thin Red Line- Malick5. Magnolia - P.T. Anderson6. Heat- M. Mann7. JFK - Stone8. Boogie Nights - P.T. Anderson9. Dead
It’s a Noé film in style, subject, and narrative structure. The camera floats around in wonderful long takes like an ethereal being, it’s filled with drugs, sex, and violence and we get a spin at
1. Raging Bull- Scorsese2. Blade Runner - R. Scott3. Nostalgia - Tarkovsky4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover - Greenaway5. Blue Velvet - Lynch6. Do the Right Thing - S. Lee7. The
Guerra’s second straight excellent film after 2015’s Embrace of the Serpent. It’s telling a traditional (this one even more traditional) from a different perspective. This is the rise of a crime family but from the
Often cited as the first French New Wave film—and Varda the “Grandmother” of the new wave. I’m not sure about that- and not sure it matters—it’s a great film and—the style is unique and abundant-
A cop drama that looks like every cliché on paper—done with ingenuity and nearly flawless execution- a great filmStarts with bang-- hand-held chase- a wild flashback in washed out colorThen at the inquest we have
A journey through the jungle narrative in the vein of Coppola (Apocalypse Now), Herzog (Aguirre), and others. James Gray’s The Lost City of Z the year after in 1916This is different in two main respects,
A wild experimentation of visual style and a hell of a debut for Sergei Parajanov An unbridled aesthetic achievement—he throws the kitchen sink at it so to speak stylistically—it doesn’t all land, and you don’t
1. Apocalypse Now- F. Coppola2. Stalker - Tarkovsky3. The Godfather - F. Coppola4. The Godfather Part II - F. Coppola5. Taxi Driver- Scorsese6. A Clockwork Orange- Kubrick7. Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Herzog8. Manhattan-
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey- Kubrick2. 8 1/2 - Fellini3. La Dolce Vita- Fellini4. Lawrence of Arabia- Lean5. Jules and Jim- Truffaut6. Breathless- Godard7. Persona- Bergman8. Psycho- Hitchcock9. I Am Cuba- Kalatozov10. Gertrud- Dreyer11. Red
It’s up not up to Whiplash, Chazelle’s breakout second feature, and I’m positive it doesn’t touch La La Land his stylistic sonic boom 2016 masterpiece Shot in 16mm grain for much of it, then 35
A solid melodrama—I believe both the most expensive film of 1947 and the highest grossing box office film--- condemned by CatholicsOne of new 40’s Fox films in color- great to see Linda Darnell’s red hair—certainly
