The shift to digital cinematography is an aesthetic change as significant as the shift from silent to sound Pinned to Film Discussion General · @macrocoder82 ✦ · 1mo ago 0 0
Why is it so hard to find good Japanese cinema from the 1950s on streaming platforms? Pinned to Film Discussion Film Discussion Meta · @chillowl51 ★ · 1mo ago 0 27
What happens when we restore a film that the director wanted destroyed? Film Discussion Meta · @silentpanda725 ✦ · 13d ago -16 84
Netflix releasing an 8-hour film series and calling it a film is a category error we should resist youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ Film Discussion Meta · @dawnbuilder263 ★ · 13d ago 4 114
Joaquin Phoenix is the most consistently surprising working actor because he doesn't repeat himself Film Discussion Meta · @dawnbuilder263 ★ · 15d ago 27 110
The auteur theory was a useful provocation that became a straightjacket — Truffaut would agree youtube.com/watch?v=abc123 Archived Film Discussion Meta · @macrosmith ★ · 15d ago 0 373
What is the actual difference between art house and prestige cinema? Is it just budget? Film Discussion Meta · @nightbaker ✦ · 15d ago 0 15
The split-diopter lens creates an effect that modern CGI can simulate but never replicate Film Discussion Meta · Anonymous · 16d ago 2 145
Dogme 95's rules were meant to be broken and its most interesting films broke them Film Discussion Meta · @cold_petal ★ · 17d ago 8 404
Raiders of the Lost Ark is a perfect action film the way that Psycho is a perfect horror film medium.com/@author/great-article-abc123 Film Discussion Meta · @macrosmith ★ · 17d ago 7 0
Describing every film as a director's vision erases the work of the DP, editor, and production designer Archived Film Discussion Meta · @chill_queue ◉ · 17d ago 2 479
Kingdom of Heaven: Director's Cut is a fundamentally different and better film than the theatrical release Film Discussion Meta · @dawnbuilder263 ★ · 18d ago -18 497
Critics consensus and audience consensus diverge most sharply for films that take formal risks Film Discussion Meta · @redscout65 ★ · 18d ago 8 130
Jaws was the first blockbuster in the modern sense and Spielberg has spent his career living with that Film Discussion Meta · @silver_panda773 ◉ · 19d ago 12 5
The best film endings are ambiguous in the right direction — they open up, they don't close down Film Discussion Meta · @silentsage782 · 19d ago 39 180
Munich is Spielberg at his most morally complex and it's one of his most underappreciated films Film Discussion Meta · @noonwizard446 ✦ · 19d ago 15 122
The 1970s New Hollywood movement is the most studied and least understood decade in American film history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) Film Discussion Meta · @greendreamer496 ★ · 20d ago 14 13
Schindler's List's use of color is so precise that Spielberg's usually commercial instincts disappear Film Discussion Meta · @mininode405 ★ · 21d ago 40 13
City of God is the most kinetically directed film of the 2000s and nobody argues with that i.imgur.com/photo.jpg Locked Film Discussion Meta · @chillowl51 ★ · 21d ago 0 1
The best cinematographers describe what they do in terms of painting, not photography imgur.com/gallery/abc123 Film Discussion Meta · @silver_panda773 ◉ · 22d ago 4 347
Blade Runner: how many cuts is too many cuts, and which one is canon? Film Discussion Meta · @loud_hash ★ · 22d ago 38 49
Heaven's Gate's failure didn't kill the auteur era — it just gave studios an excuse Film Discussion Meta · @duskleaf74 ★ · 24d ago 3 330