Typically, whenever I am reading a review or commentary about a piece of art, regardless of format, I will immediately stop reading as soon as someone write, “____ would not be the same today without ____.” That said, film would not be the same without Man with a Movie Camera.
Read more "Man with a Movie Camera"One hundred and twenty-four minutes of brilliantly choreographed sight gags. Frankly, I am not entirely sure what else I could say.
Read more "Playtime"Bicycle Thieves, without question, both deserves to be on this list as much as it deserves to be much higher on the list.
Read more "Bicycle Thieves"One hundred percent of all the films I have seen with “Vita” in the title have left me feeling a little worse for wear and I mean that is the best way.
Read more "La Dolce Vita"La Jetee is a 1962 short-feature science fiction, time travel, film by Chris Marker.
Read more "La Jetee"In the Mood for Love is a film by Wong Kar-wai made in the year 2000 that focuses on the lives of two married couples that live in the same apartment building.
Read more "In the Mood for Love"Strip away historical importance and you are left with a psychological courtroom drama.
Read more "Rashomon"Who am I? Why am I watching this? Is the film itself broken before it begins? Or is that me? Why will nothing fit properly? Is death bleeding me? Or life? Will this begin before it ends?
Read more "Persona"The Rules of the Game is one of the finest films that I have seen and I am definitely better for having watched it and Jean Renoir is one of the tops.
Read more "La Regle du jeu"In 1941 writer, director, and actor Orson Welles redefined filmmaking with his classic picture Citizen Kane. There are only a very few directors who received any notoriety from their freshmen attempts at the time of their release. Orson Welles had made a name for himself on the stage and, a few years before Kane was […]
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