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Criterion Collection Themes - Great Soundtracks
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Try to think of Charade without that perfectly swoony Henry Mancini title song. Imagine Easy Rider roaring down the highway without Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” kicking it into high gear, or Dazed and Confused fading out to anything other than Foghat’s “Slow Ride”—or a zitherless The Third Man. Many movies are inextricable from their flawlessly selected soundtracks. Similarly, certain songs don’t seem to have reason to exist without the images they’ve been set to: Jeannette’s unfathomably giddy “Por que te vas” is forever tied to Ana Torrent’s bedroom dance in Cría cuervos . . . , and anyone who’s seen Chungking Express is unlikely to hear the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’” without dreaming of Faye Wong bopping along. Below, explore a potpourri of Criterion pop and jazz, in films featuring music from David Bowie, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, John Lurie, Nico, the Rolling Stones, Annie Ross, Tom Waits, and more. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Italian Neorealism
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The neorealist movement began in Italy at the end of World War II as an urgent response to the political turmoil and desperate economic conditions afflicting the country. Directors such as Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, and Luchino Visconti took up cameras to focus on lower-class characters and their concerns, using nonprofessional actors, outdoor shooting, (necessarily) very small budgets, and a realist aesthetic. The best-known examples remain De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, a critical and popular phenomenon that opened the world’s eyes to this movement, and such key earlier works as Rossellini’s Open City, the first major neorealist production. Other classics of neorealism include De Sica’s Umberto D. and Visconti’s La terra trema, but the tendrils of the movement reach back to De Sica’s The Children Are Watching Us and forward to Rossellini’s The Flowers of St. Francis, as well as to some filmmakers who did their apprenticeships in this school, Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini—and far beyond. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Novels on the Big Screen
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. There’s a long-held and widespread feeling that a movie adaptation of a novel is never as good as the source. It’s easy to see how this became received wisdom, given the sheer difficulty of translating a plot that unfolds over hundreds of pages to a feature-length film’s running time, the immensity of the passions and mysteries that a novel can hold. The challenge for the film version is to function as its own work of art while at the same time reflecting a previously established perspective. But there have been many films that brilliantly interpret the literary universes they take on. In the movies below, the words of Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster, Patricia Highsmith, Victor Hugo, Flannery O’Connor, and Erich Maria Remarque, among many other authors, are transmuted into compelling and expressive visual experiences. Whether faithful adaptations (Rosemary’s Baby, Howards End, The Ice Storm) or daring reimaginings (The Idiot, Naked Lunch, The Thin Red Line), these are films that deserve to be appreciated alongside their printed progenitors. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Road Trips
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. One of cinema’s most abiding subgenres, road movies can be comedies, romances, thrillers, psychological dramas, or broader social commentaries. Tales of disillusionment or discovery, they are related to the bildungsroman, making literal the moral journeys characters undertake in that literary tradition—though modern films have often chosen to complicate that linear trajectory (some roads go in circles) or satirize the form (just ask the Leningrad Cowboys). At Criterion, we have a vast selection of movies in which the characters never really end up where they thought they would because by the time they reach their destination, they’ve become different people. Joel McCrea’s Hollywood director who finds out how the other half lives in Sullivan’s Travels may not seem to have much in common with Sandrine Bonnaire’s enigmatic drifter in Agnès Varda’s Vagabond, but both are transformed by their experiences on the open road. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Suspense
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Desperate men drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over creaking bridges and through winding mountain passages. A man who knows too much about a political murder races against time to save a woman from an assassin’s clutches. A fragile woman trapped alone in an apartment over one long weekend slowly succumbs to madness as her demons close in on her. A man pursued for a murder he didn’t commit stumbles upon a shadowy conspiracy. These nerve-racking scenarios are the bases of standout thrillers by some of cinema’s greatest suspense artists: Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear), Brian De Palma (Blow Out), Roman Polanski (Repulsion), and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock (The 39 Steps). And those are just a few of the hair-raisers available in the Criterion Collection, which also includes titles by David Cronenberg, Fritz Lang, David Mamet, Carol Reed, and more. -
Criterion Collection Themes - Technicolor
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. Candy-colored, boisterous, lush, lurid—all words that have been used to describe the various effects, moods, and sensations of Technicolor. For the first half of cinema’s first century, the Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation had a monopoly on color filmmaking in Hollywood and elsewhere. Requiring three separate negatives, the Technicolor method involved filtering light through a double-prism beam splitter to produce magenta and green, which, when combined with blue and red light, accurately reproduced the full color spectrum, with often dazzlingly rich and sumptuous results. In later years, when Eastman Color developed a single-strip technique that could be used in any 35 mm camera, Technicolor lost its grip on the industry. Though three-strip Technicolor is still used today, it is an anomaly—often a sign of stylish distinction. Technicolor’s full spectrum is famously difficult to reproduce, but at Criterion we aim to get those eye-popping colors as close to their original vibrancy as possible. -
CriterionForum Lists Project - Horror
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Criticstop10.com's - "Best of" Collection
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. A collection of all year lists from 2000-present as listed by CriticsTop10.com. The are ranked within each year based on how many critic top 10 lists they appeared on at the end of the year. Please see the website for more information. 1-39 - 2000 40-79 - 2001 80-119 - 2002 120-159 - 2003 -
Cuba Gooding Jr. Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. -
CultClassic Catalogue
Favs/dislikes: 4:1. Brazilian DVD distributor of classic films -
Dan Sallitt - Alternative top 100 to the S&S 2012 poll
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. -
Danny Boyle filmography
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. All feature films directed by Danny Boyle -
Darkweb Online's Top 100 Sci-fi Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. This is the Top 100 Sci-fi Movies of All Time according to Darkweb.com. -
<400
Favs/dislikes: 4:1. The best films with less than 400 checks watched by Toromash -
<400: beeswax can't stop
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. UNRANKED. This list is what stream of consciousness would look like if it were alphabetized. -
DC Extended Universe "Films"
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. All Current and Upcoming DC Extended Universe Films -
De 25 bästa svenska filmerna genom tiderna | FLM
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. En gång en klassiker, alltid en klassiker? FLM har sammanställt en filmhistorisk topplista med hjälp av 50 filmkritiker och -akademiker. -
De Volkskrant Film of the Year 1995
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The result of the annual poll of De Volkskrant readers. The readers could select their top 10 from the preselected list of films released in the cinema in The Netherlands in 1995. -
De Volkskrant Film of the Year 1998
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The result of the annual poll of De Volkskrant and readers. The readers could select their top 10 from the preselected list of films released in the cinema in The Netherlands in 1998. -
De Volkskrant Film of the Year 2000
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The result of the annual poll of De Volkskrant and cinema.nl readers. The readers could select their top 10 from the preselected list of films released in the cinema in The Netherlands in 2000. -
De Volkskrant Film of the Year 2002
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The result of the annual poll of De Volkskrant and cinema.nl readers. The readers could select their top 10 from the preselected list of films released in the cinema in The Netherlands in 2002. -
De Volkskrant Film of the Year 2005
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The result of the annual poll of De Volkskrant and cinema.nl readers. The readers could select their top 10 from the preselected list of films released in the cinema in The Netherlands in 2005. -
De Volkskrant Film of the Year 2006
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The result of the annual poll of De Volkskrant and cinema.nl readers. The readers could select their top 10 from the preselected list of films released in the cinema in The Netherlands in 2006. -
De Volkskrant Film of the Year 2010
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The result of the annual poll of De Volkskrant and cinema.nl readers. The readers could select their top 10 from the preselected list of films released in the cinema in The Netherlands in 2010. 2082 people submitted their vote. -
De Volkskrant Film of the Year 2012
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The result of the annual poll of De Volkskrant readers. The readers could select their top 10 from the preselected list of films released in the cinema in The Netherlands in 2012.
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