I was surprised to see I enjoyed Home Alone a lot more on a recent re rewtach. Not as enthusiastic as the video above, it does cover a number of fascinating points.
A delightful video that is all the more resonant as a new year starts.
Fascinating video (that is digging at my mind) about how escapism films are combating cell phones by not noting they exist.
Spooky good bit about how the textures of film itself can be another time, another place.
Being somewhere else for our eyes is a treat, and “Mandy” fully binges on it.
Thinking about one of my favorite films of the 21st century “ The Wolf of Wall Street” reminded me about how some people are unnerved by a lack of verbal cue on whether something is good or bad.
Forgetting that cinema is a visual medium, able to tap into a person’s mental state.
The clues are all there.
Not that the filmmaker has to reveal their hand at all.
Their attitudes are theirs to show or not.
But It’s not to much to ask that cinema be visual, and that the feeling is there, if you take a moment to listen.
Hear that... we are hypocrites if we say we don't know the answers.
we know.
we may not like what we know, but we know
The sheer verve and and moxie of this pick and the reason behind makes me smile with pure delight.
I truly adore this film.
But I'll ask myself: What is my favorite film? Or I'll skew the question slightly: What film would I most like to see again right now?
Right now, this moment, the answer that would spring most quickly to mind is Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960).
I've seen it, oh, at least 25 times, maybe more. It doesn't get old for me. Age has not withered, not custom staled, its infinite variety. I've grown so worked up just writing this paragraph that I want to slide in the DVD and start watching immediately.
People asked me a few years ago why I included the movie in my annual Ebertfest, since it was, they said, hardly "overlooked," and the festival showcases films that deserve more attention.
I said it was unlikely that more than a few dozen in the 1,600-seat theater would ever have seen it in a pristine 35mm print on a truly big screen. In gloomier moments, I wondered how many in the audience would never have seen it at all.
What better definition of an overlooked film is there, than one want to drag everybody else to?
Roger Ebert
Wonderful list but I am so very fascinated by the pick of Matt Zoller Seitz, of Close Encounters of the third Kind as his choice. Very very compelling.
Also amusing that it does include Truffaut, whose own Day for Night is often thought of as well.
Cinema is wonderful
Wonderful interview between Edgar Wright and Spielberg about his still amazing film “ Duel”.
The tension, the pacing, the almost silent film like presence...
just two entertaining artists shooting the breeze and loving it
One of the best video essays I have ever seen.
The idea of aspect to aspect and ignoring time to explore space (and how said space notes our identity) are very close to my heart.
Brilliantly laid out and uncoiling in our memory. Bravo.
Wonderful video about how film can be as transformative with words as it is visuals, with the same goal; how to be express emotions.
I love love love this list. Loved the selected titles. Love the care and words into each film Love the revelation of what makes film so special in the first place Loved being reminded why I cherish John Carpenter in the first place Fantastic
Fascinating video about how behavior, if interesting and presented visually, hypnotizes us and lingers in our mind like memories and drams.
Film is great.
One the very, very best video essays i have ever seen, it primarily touches upon how Steven Spielberg constructs a set piece, how he uses the mechanics and aesthetics of horror(his entire career), and then springboards to how horror in general leads to visceral moments and experiences, and that is what film is all about.
The scary stuff sticks with us.
Just a wonderful, thought expanding video.
Fascinating video about how when a filmmaker does not go into a work with a strong point of view or too self referential to a previous form of art. it’s detrimental to how we observe behavior and discover something new.
Just be yourself, turkey.
Religion is always a fascinating subject for films (how did you visualize a feeling of grandiose?) especially when doing so in a pop art way. This essay showcases how "Close Encounters " lifted and split spirits and words.