Joaquin Phoenix is the most consistently surprising working actor because he doesn't repeat himself Pinned to Film Discussion Xia Wright @darksage82 ◉ · 1mo ago 14 23
Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day is acting you could study for a semester Pinned to Film Discussion Isla @hotmaker93 ◉ · 1mo ago -22 52
Isabelle Huppert approaches every role with a neutrality that makes audiences do the emotional work Tara Kim @hotwolf ✦ · 22d ago 2 174
The Academy's relationship with foreign language films remains one of its least defensible structural biases Jack @busy_seed ★ · 24d ago 0 84
Critics consensus and audience consensus diverge most sharply for films that take formal risks Anonymous · 26d ago 0 136
Meryl Streep's accent work is so good it has become its own form of distraction in some films Hope Scott @freshrunner ◉ R · 1mo ago 15 6
Jump cuts in À bout de souffle were partly accidents that Godard turned into a stylistic choice youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Rae @micro_stack947 ◉ · 1mo ago 7 129
The Oscar for Best Picture has been wrong more often than it's been right — prove me wrong Xia @goldcoder ◉ · 1mo ago 16 98
Joaquin Phoenix is the most consistently surprising working actor because he doesn't repeat himself Gael @grumpywave ★ A · 1mo ago 24 153
Orson Welles invented half of film technique and spent the rest of his life proving it Tina Nelson @ironlink70 ★ · 1mo ago 5 348
Denis Lavant in Holy Motors gives the single most physically committed performance I've ever seen Hank @eveningbreeze223 ◉ · 1mo ago 0 279
The Magnificent Ambersons is the greatest film that studio interference actively ruined Jack Singh @warmbadger66 ✦ · 1mo ago 0 3
Nolan's films are ultimately about time and every single one of them without exception Mia @steelrunner66 ✦ A · 1mo ago 28 394
What happens when we restore a film that the director wanted destroyed? Xia Wright @darksage82 ◉ · 1mo ago 6 278
The method acting debate is really a debate about whether actors owe colleagues safety on set Quinn @lazy_raven ✦ · 1mo ago 0 29
Welles' F for Fake is the best film about art forgery and also the best film about film Anonymous · 1mo ago 8 30
Touch of Evil's opening shot is the best argument for long takes in film history Sam Smith @macrosmith A · 1mo ago 0 28
Describing every film as a director's vision erases the work of the DP, editor, and production designer Amir Berg @warm_breeze ✦ R · 1mo ago -4 2
Rotten Tomatoes scores flatten nuance in ways that are more harmful than helpful for film culture Xia Bell @cool_pixel ★ · 1mo ago 4 2
The 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is a statistical artifact that tells you almost nothing about a film Clara Torres @bluesailor ★ F · 1mo ago 21 261
The deep focus shots in Citizen Kane still feel radical if you put them next to contemporary films Anonymous · 1mo ago 0 76
Walter Murch's theory of editing is the most useful practical framework for understanding why cuts work Jack @busy_seed ★ · 1mo ago 3 38