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Charles Bramesco's Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Taking you from the earliest feature films to today, Colours of Film introduces 50 iconic movies and explains the pivotal role that colour played in their success. The use of colour is an essential part of film. It has the power to evoke powerful emotions, provide subtle psychological symbolism and act as a narrative device. In Colours of Film, film critic Charles Bramesco introduces an element of cinema that is often overlooked, yet has been used in extraordinary ways. Using infographic colour palettes, and stills from the movies, this is a lively and fresh approach to film for cinema-goers and colour lovers alike. He also explores in fascinating detail how the development of technologies have shaped the course of modern cinema, from how the feud between Kodak and Fujifilm shaped the colour palettes of the 20th Century's greatest filmakers, to how the advent of computer technology is creating a digital wonderland for modern directors in which anything is possible. Filled with sparkling insights and fascinating accounts from the history of cinema, Colours of Film is an indispensable guide to one of the most important visual elements in the medium of film. I. Over the Rainbow: Post-facto Colorization (1-11) II. Unbound Imaginations: Kodak & Fujifilm (12-24) III. Making a Statement: Color Theory (25-41)* IV. Digital Wonderlands: The Color TV (42-52) *Three Colors Trilogy is considered one entry, thus 52 movies. -
Indiewire 2015 year-end critics poll best film
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. Indiewire's critics poll for 2015. Number 18 on the list, Arabian nights, has 3 separate entries on imdb. That explains why there are 52 movies in this top 50. -
Movie Retriever's The 50 Best Films of the 2000s
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Looking over films of the past decade (a list that was once up to 100 but needed to be trimmed for everyone's sake), we realized that something else is clearly important to us – filmmakers with personality. No one makes films quite like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Charlie Kaufman, Baz Luhrmann, Spike Lee, Guillermo del Toro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christopher Nolan, David Cronenberg, or Pixar. The movies produced by these sublime filmmakers are the products of people who don't just “make movies.” Each one puts their personal stamp on their work, something we clearly value in the art form that we love. Shouldn't all great art reflect not just a studio voice but the personality of the people who make it? Upon reflection, it’s clear films of the 2000s definitely reflected the personalities of the decade's best filmmakers. So, without further ado…. -
TCM's The Essentials Vol. 2: 52 More Must-See Movies and Why They Matter
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. List of the 52 movies from the TCM book, The Essentials Vol. 2: 52 More Must-See Movies and Why They Matter, by Jeremy Arnold. -
The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. The term “male gaze” was first coined in the 1970s to describe what happens to all of us when the majority of our entertainment has been created by men. The viewer is forced to see female characters through a male lens, which distorts how all of us see women, and even how women see themselves. Typically, the keepers of film history and writers of film criticism have also been men. Yet, since the very birth of cinema, women have been making movies. So, what does the world look like through the “female gaze”? This is the question bestselling author and film reporter Alicia Malone poses, as she presents The Female Gaze―a collection of essays on fifty-two movies made by women. These films encompass various eras, nationalities, and stories, yet each movie is distinctly feminine. Joining Alicia Malone is a variety of established and aspiring female film critics, who write about their favorite film made by a female director. [url]https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CXWFD8F/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0[/url] -
50 Klassiker Film
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Films from the book "50 Klassiker Film" (50 classics: film) by Nicolaus Schröder. The book contains also documentaries and films that are important from the perspective of German film history. (Because "Olympia" is in two parts, the list contains 51 films) -
Jonathan Rosenbaum's 50 Favorite Films of the 21st Century so far
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. "A surprising consequence of my posting “My 25 Favorite Films of the 2000s (so far)” on this site on June 21 was that visits to my site suddenly quadrupled, going from about a thousand per day to well over 4,000. This was encouraging — and for me a good response to Robert Koehler’s charge that such list-making was pointless (because the need for viewing suggestions in a context where there are too many choices strikes me — and apparently many others — as self-evident). Yet the haste with which I put together my original list also led to some subsequent second thoughts and demurrals. So with this in mind, I’ve come up with a new list of 50 instead of 25, substituting one title in the original list after my friend Janet Bergstrom persuaded me that Chantal Akerman’s From the Other Side was a much worthier example of Akerman’s work than Down There (which I’d listed partially as a provocation, without a sufficient amount of reflection). As with my original list of titles, I’ve stuck to the same rule of including only one film by each filmmaker, and the order is alphabetical. And again, with very few exceptions (e.g., The Clock, Uncle Boonmee), commentaries on these films (of varying lengths) can be found on this site, accessible via the search engine. Afterthought: The most glaring omission/oversight in my list of fifty titles is Travis Wilkerson’s Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?" Wilkerson's film has been included at the bottom of the list. The article was published on Rosenbaum's site on October 17, 2019, though it appears to have been compiled earlier (the article is dated 7/11/17) -
50 Good Psychological Thriller Movies
Favs/dislikes: 19:0. (by Shane Rivers). With the release of Gerard Butler’s Law Abiding Citizen, I started thinking about the psychological thriller genre. Due to its impressive number of triumphs in recent years, it has become one of the most consistent genres for those looking for entertaining films with a twist. It’s therefore my pleasure to present 50 good psychological thriller movies which you might find of interest. -
50 movies on a weekend
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. A list by Afisha.ru's critic Stanislav Zelvensky -
Barry Norman: 50 greatest British films of all time
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Radio Times's resident film critic Barry Norman's 49 favourite British films (Feb '13), plus reader selected 50th. Not in any particular order. The 50th film was chosen to be Slumdog Millionaire. -
Critics' Top 10's Best Movies of 2020 (a compiled top 50)
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. An aggregator of 673 critics' lists of best films of the year. See their Q&A at https://criticstop10.com/qa/ for more information. -
CriticsTop10.com Best Movies of 2019
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. An aggregation of 867 critics' lists, compiled by CriticsTop10.com -
CriticsTop10.com Best Movies of 2020
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. An aggregation of 772 critics' lists, compiled by CriticsTop10.com -
CriticsTop10.com Best Movies of 2021
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. An aggregation of 801 critics' lists, compiled by CriticsTop10.com -
Daily Mail's 50 Best Movies of the Noughties
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. From Tolkien's Middle Earth to the Calendar Girls' Middle England, our critic picks the 50 best movies of the first decade of the Noughties. So get out the popcorn and see if you agree... -
Eric D. Snider's Top 50 Movies of 1995-2005
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Here is Top 50 Movies of 1995-2005 selected by one of OFCS' member Eric D. Snider. -
Erik Childress' Top 50 Greatest Films
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Erik Childress picks his top 50 films of all time. He is one of four executive positions at Chicago Film Critics Association. Alphabetical order... -
Fifty Great War Films
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. List of movies from the book "Fifty Great War Films" by Timothy Newark -
Film Comment's 50 Best Films of the Decade (2010s)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. -
Film Comment's Best Films of 2014
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. According to the source: "A note on the poll’s workings: over 100 North American colleagues ranked their favorites in two categories: 1) those that received theatrical runs and 2) those viewed this year but currently with no announced plans for U.S. theatrical distribution. For each ballot, a first-place choice was allotted 20 points, 19 for second, and so on." These are the films in the first category. For the films in the second category, look [url=http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/film+comments+best+unreleased+films+of+2014/gershwin/]here[/url] -
Film Comment’s End of Year Critics’ Poll 2003
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. Filmcomment magazine asked many important American film critics to compiled "Best Films of 2003". -
Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 50 Best Films of the 21st Century (So Far)
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. Over the course of a few months, several Zoom meetings, and countless emails, six THR film critics came together to hash out, and rank, what they consider the greatest films since 2000. BY JON FROSCH, DAVID ROONEY, SHERI LINDEN, LOVIA GYARKYE, LESLIE FELPERIN, JORDAN MINTZER APRIL 6, 2023 Why now? Why not? Sure, we’ve yet to hit the quarter-century mark, when these sorts of lists tend to start landing. But we’ve arguably already lived through 100 years’ worth of upheaval, progress, pain, destruction, hope and heartache in the world — not to mention the film industry — since 2000. We thought it as good a time as any to look back at the films that have, to us, stood the ever-unfolding test of time. In the spirit of transparency, our methodology went something like this: We all offered up titles we thought were worthy of consideration (an initial list of well over 100 movies). Everyone voted “yea” or “nay” on each of those titles. The films with the most yeas — about 80 — advanced to the next round. Everyone scored each title from 0 to 3. We tallied up the points, and then hashed it out from there. Countless emails and a few long Zoom meetings later, we had our list. Our only parameters: All six of us had to love, like or at least respect every film on the list. And we did not consider anything from 2022; it just felt too soon (translation: after the forever-long awards season, we needed a breather from talking about Tár, Everything Everywhere All at Once and the rest of ’em). Picking the movies we love the most, while being mindful of variety and inclusivity, significance and staying power, was difficult (we know: world’s smallest violin). We wanted our list to reflect the breadth of world cinema and of our tastes, but we also didn’t want to placate or pander or allow fear of Film Twitter or Outrage Twitter (or any Twitter) to weigh on our process. That doesn’t mean we weren’t plagued by doubts along the way. What are we missing? Who are we leaving out? Why this movie and not that one? We know certain omissions and selections are bound to incite eye rolls, grumbles and maybe a shriek or two. But we tried to stay true to our love of movies, these movies, and others that didn’t make the cut. (Remember, it’s only 50!) The final list is a reflection of that love, but also of a system that favors certain stories and storytellers at the expense of others. If the list is not a model of representational balance, call us out — we can take it — but also continue to call out an industry that hasn’t given us a more diverse landscape of voices to love, hate and argue over. The most conspicuous, surprising (including to us) and, surely to some readers, infuriating, thing about our list is how many masters are missing. After all our deliberating, point tallying, reconsidering, revoting, retallying and re-deliberating, none of the following directors cracked the top 50 films or 15 honorable mentions: Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Spike Lee, Gus Van Sant, Jean-Luc Godard, David Cronenberg, Michael Mann, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Alexander Payne, Jim Jarmusch, James Gray, Jia Zhangke, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi, Asghar Farhadi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Ditto polarizing though prolific auteurs like Woody Allen, Roman Polanski and Lars von Trier. This wasn’t the result of any kind of “out with the old, in with the new” intention. In some cases — Scorsese, Spike, Godard — we felt their best work was pre-21st century. In Spielberg’s case, there were several films that had love (including Minority Report and West Side Story), but none that united all six of us in full-throated enthusiasm. In other cases, as in Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, Malick’s The New World and The Tree of Life, and Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, there were ardent supporters but also just-as-ardent detractors. In other words, we didn’t reverse-engineer the list by starting with great directors and pulling from their filmographies; we allowed the titles to emerge organically, via memory and good old-fashioned brainstorming. (Five directors — or six if you count the Coens separately — ended up with two films apiece on the list: Jane Campion, Joel and Ethan Coen, Alfonso Cuarón, David Fincher and Richard Linklater. For more stats and specifics about the results, read [url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/?p=1235362388]this breakdown[/url].) Straight-up studio comedy, action, sci-fi and horror are largely, though not entirely, absent from our final selections (cue the cries of film-critic elitism). We love those genres, we swear! Movies like Borat, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Collateral, The Bourne Ultimatum, Master and Commander and, yes, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy were all in contention at one point or another. But the scarcity of this type of entertainment on our list reflects what we see as a certain creative impoverishment in those genres over the past few decades. The lack of risk-taking in mainstream filmmaking, the sameness and safeness of so much of that “product,” results in few of those movies lingering in the mind for longer than their runtimes. We could go on and on about the shortcomings of our work here — not enough animation! — but that’s what we count on you for! Without further ado, here are what we consider the 50 best films of the 21st century so far. Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order): [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/cache/]Caché[/url] (Michael Haneke, 2005); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+dark+knight/]The Dark Knight[/url] (Christopher Nolan, 2008); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/lenfant/]L’Enfant (The Child)[/url] (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2006); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/holy+motors/]Holy Motors[/url] (Leos Carax, 2012); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+hurt+locker/]The Hurt Locker[/url] (Kathryn Bigelow, 2009); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/margaret-2011/]Margaret[/url] (Kenneth Lonergan, 2011); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/marriage+story/]Marriage Story[/url] (Noah Baumbach, 2019); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/la+pianiste/]The Piano Teacher[/url] (Michael Haneke, 2002); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+royal+tenenbaums/]The Royal Tenenbaums[/url] (Wes Anderson, 2001); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/lheure+dete/]Summer Hours[/url] (Olivier Assayas, 2009); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/there+will+be+blood/]There Will Be Blood[/url] (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/sous+le+sable/]Under the Sand[/url] (François Ozon, 2001); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/under+the+skin-2013/]Under the Skin[/url] (Jonathan Glazer, 2014); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/vera+drake/]Vera Drake[/url] (Mike Leigh, 2004); [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/vals+im+bashir/]Waltz With Bashir[/url] (Ari Folman, 2008) -
Indiewire 2013 year-end critics poll best film
Favs/dislikes: 16:0. Indiewire's top 50 of the year. Very influential for the TSPDT 21st century list. -
Indiewire 2014 year-end critics poll best film
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. Indiewire's top 50 of the year. As always very influential for the TSPDT 21st century list. -
Peter Bradshaw’s top 50 films of the demi-decade (2010-2014)
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. We are now midway through the 2010s. So what trends are emerging in cinema? Peter Bradshaw takes a look – and picks his top 50 films of the demi-decade. (Order as per article. Eligibility by UK release date.)
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