Looking for your rec on film criticism, history, cinema studies, production process etc.
Recently enjoyed Martin Scorsese's Personal Journey and Mark Cousins' Story of Film.
Any others I should check out?
Looking for your rec on film criticism, history, cinema studies, production process etc.
Recently enjoyed Martin Scorsese's Personal Journey and Mark Cousins' Story of Film.
Any others I should check out?
Visions of Light about cinematography. The Cutting Edge about editing. Side by Side about film v. digital.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
A few more mostly related to 60s/70s cinema:
Corman's World
Burden of Dreams
Hearts of Darkness
The Kid Stays in the Picture
A Decade Under the Influence
Z Channel
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Histoire(s) du Cinema
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
Corman's World (edit: Pop Trash beat me to it)
[+] closer to next rating / [-] closer to previous rating
- Dark (S3) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Fall (Mann, 2022) ✦✦✦½ [-]
- Ms. Marvel (S1) ✦½ [+]
- Dark (S2) ✦✦✦✦
- Moon Knight (S1) ✦✦½ [-]
- Get Carter (Hodges, 1971) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Prey (Trachtenberg, 2022) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Black Bird (S1) ✦✦✦✦
- Better Call Saul (S6) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Halo (S1) ✦✦✦ [-]
- Slow Horses (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- H4Z4RD (Govaerts, 2022/BE) ✦✦½ [-]
- Gangs of London (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- We Own This City (S1) ✦✦✦½ [+]
- Thor: Love and Thunder (Waititi, 2022) ✦✦ [+]
You might've already seen this, as it was included in the box set DVD, but Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures is both revealing and hilarious. The anecdote about Kubrick measuring how much milk a cat gets on the average lick is classic.
Stuff I've Watched out of *****
The Last Duel - ***
Only Murders in the Building: **
Squid Games: **.5
Maybe not what you're looking for but I found all the "making of" documentaries on the LOTR Extended Editions very enlightening on the production process.