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101 Eesti filmi (Tristan Priimägi)
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Filmikriitik Tristan Priimägi on valinud nende kaante vahele 101 Eesti filmi, mis annavad meie rohkem kui saja-aastasest filmiloost värvika läbilõike. Raamat aitab lugejal tõlgendada neid filme ajalises kontekstis, toob võrdlusi üleilmsete tähtteoste ja suundumustega, tunnustab arengut, uudseid mõtteid ja filmitehnilisi võtteid, puistab fakte ja põnevaid kaadritaguseid lugusid, selgitab seosid ja viskab vihjeid, intrigeerib edasi mõtlema ja vanu filme uue pilguga uuesti vaatama. Raamatu filmiregistrist võib leida peaaegu 500 pealkirja ja isikunimede registrist ligi 800 nime. Films missing from IMDb: 19. Talupojad 76. Esteetilistel põhjustel 79. Isamaa ilu 81. Vali kord 93. Salme saladus -
101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century by WGA
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Fifteen years ago, when the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) compiled the 101 Greatest Screenplays of all time, the list was nothing short of a 20th century canon. The romantic wartime spy thriller Casablanca (written by the brothers Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch) was voted number 1; 99 screenplays later, at 101, was another romantic wartime spy thriller, Notorious (written by Ben Hecht). In between were foundational examples of film noir (Double Indemnity, written by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler), romantic comedy (Annie Hall, written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman), and gritty social drama (On the Waterfront, written by Budd Schulberg). But “canon” is a double-edged word: Of those 101 scripts, there were no writers of color, and only seven had a female screenwriter credited. 'The new 101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (*so far) could not but tell a different, and fluid, story. On the prior list, classic films about women, like Sunset Boulevard or All About Eve, were still narrated by men—one lying dead in a swimming pool. There are some 30 female screenwriters this time around, and five writers of color in the top 10. More to the point, there is not the sense that the writer had to contrive a way to make his or her character more…relatable, regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation. As the number one vote-getter, Get Out is this list’s version of Casablanca: Imagine Jordan Peele pitching his concept to Jack Warner, and it immediately becomes apparent why comparing screenplays across Hollywood epochs is a non-starter. “We weren’t making art, we were making a living,” screenwriter Julius Epstein famously quipped of the studio system under which Casablanca was written. Get Out wasn’t conceived and written under any such restrictions, with a catch: The very concept of “writing for the screen” is in existential crisis. The studio system has given way to the streaming system, where everything, no matter the source, competes for eyeballs. This great (right?) democratization of content has also changed a lot of hard-and-fast rules. There are seven scripts for animated films on the new list. Depth of character, once strictly the province of the drama, or the issue film, is not out of place in a superhero movie or one starring a badly behaving bridesmaid. And formerly individuated genres like sci-fi, horror, comedy, and drama intersect freely, sometimes all in the same screenplay—see Parasite or The Lobster. Some things haven’t changed, list to list. Among the screenwriter’s roles is to reveal what is sick or horribly amiss in the culture. It was as true of Network or The Sweet Smell of Success as it is of The Big Short or Promising Young Woman. Universal themes are universal for a reason. For instance, the destructive nature of outsize power, concentrated in the hands of one apparently friend-less man. Charles Foster Kane, meet Mark Zuckerberg. There are other cool double bills across lists. All the President’s Men and Spotlight; Harold and Maude and Lars and the Real Girl; Sullivan’s Travels and Nomadland. Speaking of which, it is worth noting that most of the protagonists from the 20th century list had enviable job security, even if this meant Mafia boss, intergalactic warrior, or shark hunter. On the new list, occupation no longer defines character; but then again the middle class has vanished, the chasm between rich and poor evinced in movies from Roma to Little Miss Sunshine. And in screenplays like Wall-E, Arrival, or Children of Men, there is the heavy presence of a question: What exactly are we doing to ourselves, if not the planet? Perhaps that’s why the relatively earnest romantic comedy, at least as practiced by Nora Ephron’s When Harry Met Sally, is absent from the new list, unless you count the man-on-operating-system love of Her, or the teenage besties of Superbad and Booksmart. The screenwriters of the 20th century list were men who had either served in war, fled persecution in their home country, or come of age in war’s shadow. Cinema’s first job, until the studio system died and the rebel filmmakers of the 1960s and ’70s came along, was escape. The characters of the 21st century list are plagued by a different sort of battle. It involves the hard-fought realization of selfhood against mitigating forces of circumstance, biology, technology, identity, and neurosis. See Adaptation, Boyhood, Moonlight, and Inside Out. Destiny is now an option question, happily ever after just a construct. From Get Out at number 1, to Silver Linings Playbook at 101, the screenplays on this list invariably approach this question of self with authentic curiosity, boldness of vision, and a sense of artistic—if not personal—risk. -
15 Great Films That Let Your Eyes Do The Editing
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Since the birth of cinema the average shot length (ASL) of films has been getting shorter and shorter, and when we talk about ASL (if you don’t know) we’re talking about how long a shot lasts before cutting. The lower the ASL, the more separate shots a film contains. To give you a practical example, Spun (Jonas Åkerlund, 2002) has an ASL of around 1.2, meaning that the average duration of a shot before cutting is a mere 1.2 seconds long, whereas Some Like it Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) has an ASL of around 12.4. As a general guideline, ASLs for all films were much longer in the past, and over the decades people like Barry Salt have done exceptional work tracking the changing form of cinema, and looking at how films feature more and more cuts, and shorter and shorter takes as the medium has developed. Editing is something that we’ve become impatient for these days: we see the object, recognise its significance, and move on as quickly as possible. And this is something we’re taught to do: ‘keep it tight’, ‘cut, cut, cut’ and so on. But there’s an interesting conversation to be had about what happens when an audience is presented with a sustained frame, one that they are allowed to edit with their eyes by choosing where to look. -
15 Of The Most Confusing Films Ever Made
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. As seen here: http://www.popcrunch.com/most-confusing-films/ -
16 Best Liminal Space Horror Movies That Define the Genre
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. The word "liminal" is something we have been hearing more and more these days. The word is nothing new but its definition pertains to a lot of what we see around us. Liminal is a word that relates to transition, or the initial stages of a transitional process. Think of it as the end of one thing, but the next phase of whatever it may be describing, has yet to really take shape. Horror is often, if not always, a reflection of the world around us and how we react to it. It's the fear of the unknown in everyday life. Whether you like it or not, the 2020s have kicked off in a very liminal way. The old ways seemed to have been torn down, but we've yet to see a new world come together. Many are nostalgic of the past, but the problem with nostalgia is that it feels good to stare at something that reminds you of the good ol'days, but you will never truly obtain what it meant and felt like ever again. Look around you, the world many of us were promised no longer exists. Malls are closing, technology is advancing, politics sways back and forth between conservative and progressive ideals, and here we all are, waiting for something new in this liminal space of life. To help us through that transition is a long list of liminal horror films that hit that spot of feeling like and limbo as you yearn for a past you can't have anymore. -
17 Essential Movies For An Introduction To Essay Films
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Put most concisely by Timothy Corrigan in his book on the essay film: ‘from its literary origins to its cinematic revisions, the essayistic describes the many-layered activities of a personal point of view as a public experience’. Perhaps a close cousin to documentary, the essay film is at its core a personal mode of filmmaking. Structured in a breadth of forms, a partial definition could be said to be part fact, part fiction with an intense intimacy (but none of these are necessarily paramount). Stemming from the literary essay as a form of personal expression borne from in-depth explorations of its chosen topic, the essay film can be agitprop, exploratory, or diaristic and generally rejects narrative progression and concretised conclusions in favour of a thematic ambivalence. Due to its nature as inherently personal, the term itself is as vague and expansive as the broad collective of films it purports to represent. To borrow Aldous Huxley’s definition, the essay is a device for saying almost everything about almost anything. In built then is an inherent expansiveness that informs a great ambition in the form itself, but as Huxley acknowledges it can only say almost anything; whether extolling the need for a socialist state (Man with a Movie Camera), deconstructing the power and status of the image itself (Histoire(s) du Cinema, Images of the World and the Inscription of War, Los Angeles Plays Itself) or providing a means to consider ones of past (Walden, News from home, Blue), the essay film is only the form of expression, which unlike any other taxonomic term suggests almost nothing about the film itself other than its desire to explore. Below is an 17 film introduction to the essay film that cannot be pinned down and continue to remake and remodel itself as freely as it sheds connections between any of the films within its own canon. -
1930s Official
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Films released between 1930 and 1939 in official lists. -
20 Amazing Surrealist Movies
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. After the invention of cinema in the late 19th century, in the late 1910s and early 1920s, directors who emerged from French Impressionist Cinema, German Expressionist Cinema, Soviet Montage, Dada Cinema, Surrealist Cinema and Japanese Humanism Cinema all tried to explore the possibility of this new-born art form, and cinema reached its first golden age in history. Surrealist cinema is a modernist approach to film theory, criticism, and production with origins in Paris in the 1920s. Related to Dada cinema, Surrealist cinema is characterized by juxtapositions, the rejection of dramatic psychology, and a frequent use of shocking imagery. Surrealism was the first literary and artistic movement to become seriously associated with cinema,though it has also been a movement largely neglected by film critics and historians. Film surrealist like Luis Bunuel, Jean Cocteau, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jan Svankmajer and David Lynch broke all the rules and cinema conventions, they made divided movies that both challenge and entertain us. In order to keep a balance, we only selected at most 2 movies from each of these greatest surrealists. Some of the movies on the list are not strictly surrealist cinema, you can argue they belong to the genre of sci-fi or fantasy, but the line is thin and they surely have some surrealist element in them, that’s the reason they got chosen. If you are looking for a list full of strange movies, then this is it. -
20 MUST-SEE ECOLOGICAL HORROR FILMS
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Here are 20 of our favorite ecological horror stories, from the ’50s to the powerful and poignant films of the last decade. While there’s much entertainment to found here, there’s also an important and increasingly urgent message. If we want to keep our horror on the screen and out of our reality, the time to act is now. -
200 Films that People should Remember Forever
Favs/dislikes: 3:1. This is a list of really great films that are significant in an entertaining and maybe metaphysical way. I want to make clear that this list is in no particular order and that there were a lot of titles to choose from. Some you may not heard of while others might be overrated. However, this is my list and I stand by it. -
200 Québec Movies You Must See
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. It is an introduction to Quebec Cinema more than the best Quebec movies. 39 movies not on IMDB??? La revue québécoise de cinéma, 24 images, a publié dans son édition de Mars-Avril 2012, une liste de 200 films québécois qu'il faut avoir vus : 75 documentaires, 50 longs métrages de fiction, 25 courts métrages de fiction, 25 films d'animation, 25 films d'art et d'expérimentation -
2011 Movies Theatrically Released in the U.S.
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. 2011 Movies Theatrically Released in the U.S. Includes major motion pictures, documentaries and limited screenings. List generated from movieinsider.com. Not included at this time: Connected (connectedthefilm.com) Giorgio Moroder Presents Metroplis -
2015 Oscars - Abridged
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2019 Oscar Nominations
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Oscar Nominations - 91st Academy Awards -
2020s Official
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Films released between 2020 and 2029 on official lists. -
2022
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Theatrical or streaming releases in 2022-- comment if any are missed :) -
2023 in film
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24 Frames: The Cinema of Britain and Ireland
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. From the book 24 Frames: The Cinema of Britain and Ireland(2005) http://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Britain-Ireland-24-Frames/dp/190476438X/ref=sr_1_15?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383825078&sr=1-15&keywords=24+frames+the+cinema+of -
25th Academy Awards (1953)
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26 Films Every Young Actress Must See (EW June 20, 2014)
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Mark Ruffalo and Catherine Keener list 26 films they feel are essential watching for Hailee Steinfeld's education in issue #1317 of Entertainment Weekly. -
27th Helsinki International Film Festival 2014 unofficial list
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. This list contains (almost) all feature length films shown at the 27th Helsinki International Film Festival also known as Rakkautta & Anarkiaa (Love and Anarchy). -
30 for 30 Sports Documentaries
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. These are all the official 30 for 30 documentaries. -
365 days | 365 movies
Favs/dislikes: 3:2. A year full of cinema. Not necessarily new releases, but every movie you should watch throughout the year. -
3rd Academy Awards (1930)
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47 Films to see before you’re murdered in your dreams
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. All movies in the 47 Films to see before you’re murdered in your dreams top list are listed below. What are you waiting for, go check those movies! [URL=https://thestudioexec.com/category/47-films/]SOURCE[/URL]
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