The Class of 2021: My Favorite Movies
A short story about breath: Having become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 a month ago, I’ve begun taking regular trips to the movie theater again. Few topics are as perennially popular […]
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The Felliniesque Century
Consistently regarded as one of the world’s very greatest filmmakers, Federico Fellini is a daunting subject. Developing a bombastic and playful style, he is one of the few who can […]
The Class of 2020: My Favorite Movies
The Distracted Boyfriend meme is nowhere more applicable than in the life of a cinephile. Whatever movie I plan on seeing next, the thought will always occur to me before […]
My 25 Favorite Montages & Cross-cutting Sequences
What’s the opposite of a long take? The first four top 25 lists I put together for this blog were matching pairs: scariest scenes and funniest scenes, endings and beginnings. […]
The Class of 2019: My Favorite Movies
“How does he do it?” asked no one. According to my painstaking records, I’ve maintained roughly the same pace in watching movies that were new to me during the last […]
The Class of 2018: My Favorite Movies
I’ve watched movies every which way during these past twelve months, giving more time to them than I had in any previous year. There were the usual methods — discs […]
My 25 Favorite Long Takes
As quoted by Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles once said, “A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys.” In other words, the film director who can […]
The End of the Beginning: My 10 Favorite BPFW Movies
Even before I really knew much about movies, I had a strange pride in the ones that came out in my birth year. There was a sense of ownership over […]
The Class of 2017: My Favorite Movies of All Time
“The air in Utopia is poisoned.”–The Decline of Western Civilization The last year has been another extremely productive one for me when it comes to watching movies I hadn’t seen […]
“Everybody Was Making the Same Movie” — The Inspired Collaboration of Edward Scissorhands
It’s very tempting to approach Edward Scissorhands as an autobiographical piece of work, the inimitable vision of Tim Burton. As a child, I first began to recognize the authorship of a […]
