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
Critics consensus and audience consensus diverge most sharply for films that take formal risks Pinned to Film Discussion Gael @grumpywave ★ A · 2mo ago 12 7
Welles' F for Fake is the best film about art forgery and also the best film about film Uma @neo_leaf489 ◉ · 25d ago 0 0
Rotten Tomatoes scores flatten nuance in ways that are more harmful than helpful for film culture Kate Young @dawnnode ◉ MOD · 27d ago 0 75
Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert disagreed about almost everything and both were right about their own terms example.com/page Faye Reed @silentpanda725 ◉ F · 1mo ago 1 160
Orson Welles invented half of film technique and spent the rest of his life proving it Rae @micro_stack947 ◉ · 1mo ago 6 0
Thelma Schoonmaker is one of the greatest film artists of the 20th century and she's an editor Uma @neo_leaf489 ◉ · 1mo ago 0 11
The 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is a statistical artifact that tells you almost nothing about a film Nate @sunsetdiver719 ◉ · 1mo ago 20 225
Jump cuts in À bout de souffle were partly accidents that Godard turned into a stylistic choice Xia @goldcoder ◉ · 1mo ago 17 41
Touch of Evil's opening shot is the best argument for long takes in film history Aria Meyer @happy_petal ★ F · 2mo ago -3 122
The 180-degree rule exists to protect spatial continuity — breaking it should cost you something Xia Wright @darksage82 ◉ · 2mo ago 6 348
The auteur theory was a useful provocation that became a straightjacket — Truffaut would agree Clara Torres @bluesailor ★ F · 2mo ago -2 6
Describing every film as a director's vision erases the work of the DP, editor, and production designer Uma Kim @cyberstorm ★ · 2mo ago -5 103
Film criticism is different from film reviewing and the internet collapsed that distinction Nate Garcia @dawnwolf ✦ A · 2mo ago -15 0
Walter Murch's theory of editing is the most useful practical framework for understanding why cuts work Anonymous · 2mo ago 0 248
The deep focus shots in Citizen Kane still feel radical if you put them next to contemporary films Uma Kim @cyberstorm ★ · 2mo ago 2 0
The tracking shot in Goodfellas' Copacabana sequence is the most analyzed shot in cinema Quinn Nguyen @brightowl ★ · 2mo ago 13 170