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
Rashomon made me fundamentally reconsider what films claim to be showing us Pinned to Film Discussion Isla @coldhash63 ✦ · 1mo ago 12 353
Apple TV+ is making the most consistent prestige films right now and getting the least credit for it Aria Sato @happy_eagle ◉ · 21d ago 0 122
Close Encounters is more interesting as a film about obsession than as a film about aliens Isla @coldhash63 ✦ · 22d ago 0 0
The 180-degree rule exists to protect spatial continuity — breaking it should cost you something Tina Nelson @ironlink70 ★ · 23d ago 26 481
The tracking shot in Goodfellas' Copacabana sequence is the most analyzed shot in cinema Archived Clara Tanaka @freshhawk ★ · 23d ago 0 35
Philip Seymour Hoffman could play stillness better than almost anyone who has ever been in front of a camera Isla @coldhash63 ✦ · 24d ago 0 35
The 1970s New Hollywood movement is the most studied and least understood decade in American film history Clara Torres @bluesailor ★ F · 26d ago 32 20
E.T. is the most emotionally manipulative film Spielberg ever made and I mean that as a compliment imgur.com/gallery/abc123 Clara Tanaka @freshhawk ★ · 26d ago 0 447
Easy Rider made studios believe in youth counterculture and then The Godfather made them believe in craft Cruz Lee @coolstack ◉ ADMIN · 26d ago -4 12
The Academy's relationship with foreign language films remains one of its least defensible structural biases Aria Sato @happy_eagle ◉ · 26d ago 0 333
The debate about CGI de-aging in The Irishman reveals a generational divide in what films are supposed to do Isla @coldhash63 ✦ · 27d ago 3 49
The split-diopter lens creates an effect that modern CGI can simulate but never replicate Paul @chillqueue22 ◉ · 29d ago 5 51
The 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is a statistical artifact that tells you almost nothing about a film Hope Scott @freshrunner ◉ R · 29d ago 0 158
High and Low is Kurosawa's most underrated film and the one most relevant to contemporary class anxiety Xia @freshbloom ✦ R · 1mo ago -1 404
The studio system's collapse was bad for workers and good for auteurs — both are true simultaneously Clara Tanaka @freshhawk ★ · 1mo ago -16 24
Cannes giving the Palme to Parasite was the film world catching up to what cinephiles knew in 2003 Faye Reed @silentpanda725 ◉ F · 1mo ago 9 7
Film criticism is different from film reviewing and the internet collapsed that distinction Isla @hotmaker93 ◉ · 1mo ago 0 192
Thelma Schoonmaker is one of the greatest film artists of the 20th century and she's an editor Grace Wilson @chill_breeze ✦ · 1mo ago 0 197
Schindler's List is the film where Spielberg stopped being primarily an entertainer Archived Isla Wright @macrosage40 ◉ · 1mo ago 1 29
Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert disagreed about almost everything and both were right about their own terms Cruz Lee @coolstack ◉ ADMIN · 1mo ago -9 224
Joaquin Phoenix is the most consistently surprising working actor because he doesn't repeat himself Anonymous · 1mo ago -5 71