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20 Amazing Slow-Paced Movies You Shouldn’t Miss
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. Some of the best, and most obvious, advice to give anyone trying to get into cinema is to just be patient, and pay attention at all times. It is axiomatic for sure, but this advice is even more prevalent when considering slow, meandering cinema. It can be tempting to wander off and lose focus, but remaining diligent is what is going to provide the best understanding and enjoyment of the content over anything else. The history of slow cinema runs the gauntlet of auteur legends such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Chantal Akerman, Yasujiro Ozu, and Michelangelo Antonioni. Since the infamous boos and jeers directed towards the groundbreaking L’Avventura at Cannes, slow film has always seemed to have an uphill struggle to find a proper home. Now many filmmakers are applauded for such “relentless” pacing. In fact, from an academic and historical point-of-view, slow film is entirely antithetical to classical style filmmaking. Old (and new) films are dominated by successive cutting, varying of shots/angles, and utilizing the Kuleshov effect to its fullest for easier plotting. Usually classic Hollywood films did this so the editor could cover up any mistakes or discrepancies. Now it seems as if newer, mainstream films are vying for audience attention with as much visual stimuli as possible. However, many slow films like to have the mise-en-scène at such a minimum to where it seems as if nothing is happening. Some directors have a preference for keeping the camera at a long or medium-long shot to maintain verisimilitude, letting the scene play out in sequence. There are many fantastic slow films, but these 20 films are emblematic of what the style/technique has to offer. -
AV Club - A History of Violence
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. "With A History Of Violence, Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute." -
AWFJ’s Top 100 Films List
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The Tenth Anniversary of AFI's 100 Greatest Movies List got us to thinking, especially when we noticed that of 400 films nominated for AFI's list, only 4.5 were directed by women. We thought it would be interesting and fun to see whether AWFJ members– a diverse group of strongly opinionated and outspoken professional women film journalists who care passionately about the movies and industry they cover– would develop a list substantially different AFI's. The result, presented in alphabetical order, is an eclectic, perhaps somewhat surprising, collection of titles. It's neither politically nor academically correct, and it's far from definitive. -
Best of 1970s Sci-Fi
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. A look at some of the great and some of the more overlooked Sci-Fi classics from the greatest period of movie making. -
Best of Top
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. This is a list of movies that apper in most top lists -
Constitutional Law in Movies
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. Films about the following themes: 1. State and legal structure 2. Human rights 3. Legislative procedure 4. Rule of law 5. Separation of powers -
Den of Geek: The 25 Best Horror Movies You’ve Never Seen
Favs/dislikes: 15:0. -
Don Hertzfeldt Filmography
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. Short films by Don Hertzfeldt -
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 Best Unreleased Films of 2014
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. 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 second category. For the films in the first category, look [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/film+comments+best+films+of+2014/gershwin/]here[/url]. -
Films that SHOULD have won Best Picture
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. This is my own personal list of films that, in my opinion, should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is in no way an official list, and it reflects my opinion, and my opinion only. Enjoy! -
From the Depths of Obscurity - A Film General List
Favs/dislikes: 36:0. Original version (May 2012) For the highest rated films that received 3-7 votes, and therefore did not meet the minimum requirement of 8 votes needed in order to be included in the FG Top 1000. In descending order, beginning with the highest average rating (9.667). Credit for this list should go to Gloede / Crinderman (organizer), The Magician (script), Serriform (spreadsheet), and the FGers who did all the voting. -
Great Movies - 100 Years of Cinema
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. Based on the book by Andrew Heritage. Over 1,500 key movies are referred to in this book, but only the 100 main entries are to be found on this list. Index: 1-10: Comedy 11-20: Action & Adventure 21-30: Romance & Melodrama 31-40: Musicals 41-50: Thrillers & Crime 51-60: Historical 61-70: War 71-80: Family 81-90: Fantasy, Sci-fi & Horror 91-100: Drama -
Klasse
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Favorites -
Marsellus' Briefcase: Best by the Decades: 1930-2000
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. A list of the best films of each decade from the 1930s onward as chosen by the writers at Marsellus' Briefcase. -
Movies I've Watched in 2013
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. The movies I've watched in 2013 -
Paste's the 100 Best Sci-fi Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 13:0. Much like its close genre cousin (nephew/niece?) the superhero film, the potential of cinematic science fiction exploded in the latter part of the 20th century thanks to technological advances that transformed special effects. Unlike superhero films, which were so stunted for so long that almost every new one makes it onto our updated 100 Best Superhero Films of All Time list, science fiction proved fertile ground for filmmakers before the likes of Industrial Light & Magic supercharged a director’s ability to exceed our imagination. Thus, this list, while filled with films from the ’80s onward, has its fair share of older films. Before we dive into it, though, let’s discuss a few things this list will not have (or at least, not have many of). Superhero films are for the most part absent. Though so many superhero stories involve the stuff of science fiction—aliens, high-tech and strange worlds—there are plenty of great sci-fi movies to include on this list without bumping 20 of them off for DC and the MCU. (We’ve made an exception for one entry because the space opera underpinnings were too strong to ignore.) We’ve also left off, for the most part, the traditional giant monster/kaiju movie for the same reason. If you want a nice roundup of Godzilla’s greatest hits, check out our own Jim Vorel’s ranking of Godzilla’s cinematic oeuvre. (For the real kaiju rank-o-phile, Jim has also taken the measure of every Godzilla monster.) Finally, joining superheroes and kaiju on the sidelines, are the post-apocalyptic (and a few mid-apocalyptic) films. Though, again, there are a few exceptions, for the most part you will not find Mad Max here, or Eli, or even that guy who is Legend. (I see you frowning—“But will there be dystopias,” you ask? Hell yeah, we got dystopias.) -
Son of Shock
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. These are the films that comprised the Son of Shock film package that was sold to television stations across the United States in 1958. This package contained 20 films from Universal and Columbia Pictures. -
Sources of the Star Wars-trilogy
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. George Lucas was inspired by a lot whilst writing the story of Star Wars. He was influenced by books, mythology, religion, his personal life and of course movies. This list gives an overview of films and television series that have left their prints in this story. -
Taste of Cinema: 15 M. Night Shyamalan Movies Ranked
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. "When he first got his breakthrough in the late 90s, he was celebrated as the next big thing but the inconsistency through his career made him somewhat of a divisive filmmaker. At some point in his career, he seemed like he makes only failures and if you were no fan of his earlier output, then it wasn’t hard to hate him. Him always trying to defend his work from criticism was not a good look also. Then again, he always had his fans and defenders as well because no one makes movies like M. Night Shyamalan, for better or worse. He has his own style which is somewhat distinctive in modern mainstream cinema. His way of using camera, the way he builds suspense, how he brings some dramatic thought-provoking themes into his movies and his way of bringing unpredictable twists still brings so much entertainment to his fans which is probably why they always make good business at the box office. They’re also original. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t do adaptations but he picks materials that are different than anything else on cinemas. That’s why he’s always intriguing and interesting. The man is very passionate about his craft and it’s very evident in big part of his filmography." -
The 25 best L.A. films of the last 25 years (2008)
Favs/dislikes: 5:0. The city has been a main character in many films of the last 25 years. Our film crew picks the best. It's a tough list to crash. (L.A. Times) -
The AV Club best TV series of the ’00s
Favs/dislikes: 15:0. Still running: Mad Men The Venture Bros. -
The Big Screen - The Story of the Movies (2012) - David Thomson
Favs/dislikes: 14:0. All films mentioned in Thomson's book. + "Band of Brothers", "Berlin Alexanderplatz", "Boardwalk Empire", "Brideshead Revisited", "Deadwood", "Dexter", "Downtown Abbey", "I Love Lucy", "John Adams", "Mad Men", "Mission: Impossible", "Monty Python's Flying Circus", "Perry Mason", "Rawhide", "Sex and the City", "Six Feet Under", "The Sopranos", "Starsky and Hutch", "Star Trek", "True Blood", "24", "Twin Peaks", "The Wire", "The World at War" and "You Bet Your Life" among other TV-(mini)series. Also included are "Cathy Come Home" and "The Century of the Self". ISBN: 978-0-374-53413-4 -
Top Movies
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. In my opinion, the best movies of all time. This list is based off of what I truly believe is greatest, and what personally means a lot to me. Keep in mind that there are still many movies I have yet to see. -
Variety's The 100 Greatest Movies of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. Variety's list of 100 best movies of all time. These film writers and critics contributed suggestions for movies: Manuel Betancourt, Clayton Davis, Peter Debruge, Matt Donnelly, William Earl, Patrick Frater, Steven Gaydos, Owen Gleiberman, Dennis Harvey, Courtney Howard, Angelique Jackson, Elsa Keslassy, Lisa Kennedy, Jessica Kiang, Richard Kuipers, Tomris Laffly, Brent Lang, Joe Leydon, Guy Lodge, Amy Nicholson, Michael Nordine, Naman Ramachandran, Manori Ravindran, Jenelle Riley, Pat Saperstein, Alissa Simon, Jazz Tangcay, Sylvia Tan, Zack Sharf, Adam B. Vary, Nick Vivarelli, Meredith Woerner.
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