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IndieWire's The Best French Movies of the 21st Century

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. By Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich Jun 30, 2017 10:27 am Cinema was one of the truly international phenomenons of the last millennium, but France — more so than any other nation — has always been one of the medium’s most essential guiding lights. From the pioneer era of the Lumiere brothers, to the revolutionary New Wave that expanded our understanding of film’s potential, to the country’s recent defense of the theatrical experience, France has always pushed the movies forward while reminding us what we love about them in the first place. No country did more to help propel cinema into the 20th Century, and no country has done more to help sustain its integrity and its potential in the 21st. From sultry thrillers to mind-blowing 3D experiments and one of the most heartbreakingly honest love stories ever told, these are the 25 best French films of the 21st Century. Note: To qualify for our list, a film had to be predominately French-language and at least partially French-funded. With one exception, all of the films on this list are also set in France, as well.

Kenji Goes Down Under

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Australia & New Zealand Notes: - List appears to be arranged as a Top 14, and then the rest of the list, with both sections listed chronologically. - 60-62 are episodes of the miniseries [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+last+dream-1988/]The Last Dream[/url].

Kenji's Mali

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Kenji's list on Mubi "“Every nation has the right to be represented by the cinema” (Souleymane Cissé). To which i would add, and for its cinema and other cultural treasures to be properly appreciated. Mali has a magnificent cultural heritage, and along with superb films by directors like Souleymane Cissé, there has been tremendous music, from Tinariwen and Ali Farka Touré among others. Timbuktu is a legendary city of learning- so what a proud day it was for little Hay-on-Wye in Wales to become its twin in 2007. I have visited it- if only on google earth satellite! Anyway, here are films from Mali on this site. I look forward to seeing more, but the masterpieces Yeelen and Finyé are probably my favourite African films, while Bamako (its director was raised in Mali) is a telling indictment of, and puts on trial, the exploitative World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Fans of the Greek director Angelopoulos may be interested that cinematographer on Mother of the Dunes is Giorgos Arvanitis, while among the cinematographers in Waati is Georgi Rerberg, best known for his work on Tarkovsky’s Mirror. I’ve included Life on Earth; although officially not an indigenous film (rather funded by Burkina Faso, France and Mauritania), cos it is set in Mali. It is hard finding info on the national cinema, and even on Cissé; i’ve had to alter the short unsatisfactory Wikipedia article (adopted by Mubi) below." Missing from imdb/icm: #17 "Djandjon" by Sophie Hoffelt

Kenji's The Caucasus

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. This neglected but fascinating region with high mountains and beautiful scenery, between the Black and Caspian seas, has produced some extraordinary and exceptional films. Most essential first here, the rest in year order. Sorry, I have let this list slip, will update to include more recent films soon. I thought we already had a Caucasus list here, we do have some that cover the area along with others, but i can’t locate one on the Caucasus alone. Turkey is on the edge of the Southern Caucasus, and to the North, Russia; here it’ll just be Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, indigenous directors like Paradjanov, Kalatozov, Iosseliani, Abuladze, Peleshian and a couple of films by Atom Egoyan who is of Armenian heritage. I’m not including films set elsewhere, for instance Iosseliani’s French films, and Kalatozov’s in Russia (The Cranes are Flying…) and Cuba (I am Cuba), but i am including films by other Europeans like Since Otar Left and Journey to Armenia. See Noema’s list Georgian Cinema and "Kolar’’s list CINEMA OF AZERBAIJAN, invaluable resources that fill major gaps here. Good to see lots of Azerbaijani films now added to database. Parajanov’s Ukrainian-set Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is a must-see too. The Iranian film Bashu the Little Stranger may also be of interest as much of it takes place in the Northern region of Gilan, which is next to the Caspian Sea and is thus culturally contiguous with the Caucasus (thanks to Chai Wallah for that info). The list is separated into a Top 14 and the rest, with both sections listed chronologically. Missing from imdb (mostly shorts): #70 Biri Vardi, Biri Yoxdu... (1967 Eldar Quliyev) #97 Untitled (1976 Hamlet Hovsepian) #119 Tənha narın nağılı [Tale of the Lonely Pomegranate Tree] (1984 Şamil Mahmudbəyov & Hasanaga Turabov) #150 A Night at Parajanov Museum (1998 Roman Balayan) #157 Impressions from Rustaveli (2001 Nana Tchitchoua) #186 Mayak [The Beacon] (2012 Fariz Ahmedov) #190 Ert katss vukvardi [One Man Loved Me] (2012 Ana Urushadze)

Kenneth W. Harrow's Overview of African Cinema: 43 Years of Markers

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. This list is composed of the films mentioned at the end of Harrow's article entitled "Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema". Note: Harrow lists Zan Boko twice (in 1988 and 1998), so I've replaced the 1998 entry with Buud Yam since I think it's an error. Also mentioned is his list: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/kenneth+w.+harrows+toward+a+new+paradigm+of+african+cinema+films+cited/fergenaprido/]Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema: Films Cited[/url] Published in Critical Interventions 8, Spring 2011, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. ISSN: 1930-1944 (Print) 2326-411X (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcin20 To cite this article: Kenneth W. Harrow (2011) Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema, Critical Interventions, 5:1, 218-236, DOI: 10.1080/19301944.2011.10781411 Published online 10 Jan 2014 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19301944.2011.10781411

Kenneth W. Harrow's Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema: Films Cited

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. This list is composed of the films mentioned throughout Harrow's article and cited at the end. Missing from imdb: Amsterdam Diary (Ghana 2005) by [url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7389039/]Socrate Safo[/url] Also mentioned is his list: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/kenneth+w.+harrows+overview+of+african+cinema+43+years+of+markers/fergenaprido/]Overview of African Cinema: 43 Years of Markers[/url] Published in Critical Interventions 8, Spring 2011, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture. ISSN: 1930-1944 (Print) 2326-411X (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcin20 To cite this article: Kenneth W. Harrow (2011) Toward a New Paradigm of African Cinema, Critical Interventions, 5:1, 218-236, DOI: 10.1080/19301944.2011.10781411 Published online 10 Jan 2014 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/19301944.2011.10781411

Looper's 45 Best Prison Movies of All Time Ranked

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. BY BARRY LEVITT / MARCH 24, 2022 12:59 AM EST There's something compelling about a look behind bars –- for many movie fans, prison films are their only experience with the world of incarceration. Prison movies take audiences to places unknown, often bringing us face to face with hardened criminals. Many great prison movies take us deeper, showing us things we didn't expect, whether it's a criminal with surprising kindness, or the brutal conditions faced by inmates the world over. Films about prison can transport us to unique and fascinating worlds, and many successfully hold a mirror up to society, exposing our bizarre desires to see people suffer. Great prison movies go deeper than this, of course, exposing the remarkable humanity that can exist in prisoner-of-war camps, jails, and chain gangs. They provide insight into this unknown society, and while there are certainly heavy connotations to the prison movie, many subvert them with wicked, often clever humor. Exploring the genre of prison movies yields rich results, especially in a surprisingly diverse slate of films that cover every facet of a life behind bars. In honor of this fascinating, frightening, thrilling, challenging, and sometimes heartwarming genre, here are the 45 best prison movies of all time ranked.

Men's Health's The 45 Best Teen Movies of All Time

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. BY TEMI ADEBOWALE, EVAN ROMANO AND ADRIANNA FREEDMAN SEP 25, 2020 Teen movies are great because while the category can definitely stand on its own, teen movies can also easily fall into other genres—horror, comedy, romance, drama—and the best teen movies combine elements of several genres. There's also something about watching a coming of age film that is all too relatable, from the social insecurity to the butting of heads with parents who just don't understand. In 2019, TV psychologist Honey Langcaster-James talked to Refinery 29 about the allure of teen movies: "One of the things that we do with entertainment is we gain mastery over potentially difficult emotions. Some people wonder why anybody would ever want to watch a horror movie or a thriller. Why would you want to sit and be scared? But there is an element of reassurance in being able to experience those emotions from a removed perspective and I wonder if the same can be said for teen fiction. Through the processes of empathy with the character, you're experiencing those emotions that were challenging. But now, from this more mature perspective, you're gaining an opportunity to master those emotions that you once felt so consumed by and now can have a more detached and bemused look upon that time in your life." To celebrate the genre, three of our editors came together make a list of our favorite teen films. This list can't cover every single teen movie, but we hope it contains some of your favorites, as well as some new picks for you to check out. So without further ado, here are the 45 best teen films of all time.

Metro Weekly's 13 Camp Films Everyone Should See

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. From Hollywood's golden age to John Waters's trash cinema, the camp films that define a genre By Sean Bugg, Will O'Bryan and Doug Rule February 22, 2012 Camp, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For some, a camp movie is the unintentional hilarity of an earnest story gone wildly awry. For others, the best camp movies are those in which the camp is intentionally baked in from the beginning. We all know that a camp movie by definition is filled with quotable lines, like Divine’s ”I told you cha cha heels! Black ones!” But a movie with memorable quotes isn’t necessarily camp, like Steel Magnolias‘ ”Drink your juice, Shelby.” It’s just all so confusing. So when we set out to pick our favorite camp movies, we focused on the movies that we’ve watched over and over until they’ve become part of our queer pop-culture DNA. They’re the movies we watch with old friends and the movies we introduce to new friends. They’re the movies that over decades have become the shared cultural touchstones for everything gay. And, frankly, they’re simply and supremely silly, even if they’re trying not to be. These aren’t the movies that won Academy Awards (with one notable exception). They’re the movies that gave us an attitude.

Metro Weekly's 15 Black LGBTQ Films Everyone Should See

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. From "Bessie" to "Young Soul Rebels" these movies showcase the best of black gay cinema By André Hereford, Chris Heller, Rhuaridh Marr, Will O'Bryan, Doug Rule and Randy Shulman February 23, 2017 Every culture is comprised of subcultures. They are essential veins to a greater artery. And there is, arguably, no more profoundly resonant subculture within the LGBTQ movement than the African-American community. It’s been such a fertile territory for filmmakers that when deciding on a sixth installment for our “LGBTQ Films Everyone Should See” series, it stood out as a no brainer. Of course, it helps that the low-budget Moonlight has become a launching pad of sorts, renewing a rapture for honest black cinema in a way that alluded such recent high profile entries like Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation. Moonlight came in, stealth-like, and stole every bit of the thunder. Deservedly so. The Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning masterpiece sets a new bar for black gay cinema, if not all independent film. Poetic and resonant, it deploys a magnificently complex, ethereal narrative structure, offering the world a moviegoing experience that eschews Hollywood’s typical cookie cutter aesthetic for one daring, brave, and emotionally, intellectually powerful. It’s the standard from which all LGBTQ cinema will be compared moving forward. And like the the finest LGBTQ films — Beautiful Thing, Boys Don’t Cry, Brokeback Mountain — it remains true to itself, true to its heart. And that truth is what sticks with you long after the movie has ended. Each of the 15 films selected for our list are just as true, making every single one of them — no matter who you are, no matter what your cultural assignation, no matter your sexual orientation — essential viewing. They inform, they entertain, they enlighten, they stir our collective souls. Most importantly, they leave us with a far better understanding of our LGBTQ culture, as well as the subcultures within, subcultures that provide real muscle to our mass. In alphabetical order:

Miu Miu Women's Tales

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Since 2011, Women’s Tales is an ongoing series of short films commissioned by Miu Miu, the Italian high-fashion brand. With a brief to look both critically and lovingly at femininity in the 21st century, these short films embrace the many complexities and contradictions that make up women’s experiences today. Directed by some of the most renowned female filmmakers, such as Mati Diop, Lucrecia Martel, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Agnès Varda, Ava DuVernay, Naomi Kawase and Lynne Ramsay, Women’s Tales explores the multitude of ways, both enriching and contradictory, that clothes can impact on our everyday life.

MUBI + byNWR

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. MUBI Special “It was a myth… No one had ever seen it.” —Nicolas Winding Refn on The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds Welcome to the world of byNWR AN UNADULTERATED CULTURAL EXPRESSWAY FOR THE ARTS Born from Nicolas Winding Refn’s passion for the rare, the forgotten and the unknown, byNWR breathes new life into the culturally intriguing and influential. Home to cultural ephemera created by an array of Guest Editors and contributors, our beautifully restored and revived cinematic gems inspire a world of original content, where we share, enjoy and look to the future with hope, prosperity and the idea that culture is for everyone. MUBI has joined forces with byNWR to give you exclusive early access to the restored films. #18-20 are included in "EARS, EYES AND THROATS: RESTORED CLASSIC AND LOST PUNK FILMS 1976-1981" along with "In the Red".

Out at Criterion

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. From 1961's groundbreaking Victim to trailblazing modern romances, these are the LGBTQ films out on Criterion. In 1961, Basil Dearden’s Victim became the first mainstream English-language drama to feature a sympathetic homosexual protagonist, played by matinee idol Dirk Bogarde. In 2011, Andrew Haigh’s boy-meets-boy romance Weekend defied expectations to become a crossover art-house hit. The fact that, fifty years after Victim, Weekend is also considered groundbreaking is evidence of how far cinema may still have to go in terms of gay representation. But between these two revelatory films, there have been plenty of other important and entertaining ones made about gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, and several of them are available in the Criterion Collection, including works by trailblazers like Robert Epstein, Derek Jarman, and Gus van Sant. Films listed alphabetically by Criterion's title. At the end are two collections: Pasolini 101 (9 films) and The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs (7 films) [url=https://www.criterion.com/explore/181-out-at-criterion]Old Source[/url]

Rotten Tomatoes: 30 Essential LGBTQ Documentaries

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Queer cinema hinges on stories about the one and the many. LGBTQ documentary films, though, can only ever offer both: portraits of individuals necessarily speak more broadly about the community they come to represent, while chronicles of a group (or a family, or a segment of the population) can only ever do so through individual testimonials and the singular vision of the filmmaker at hand. Films like Portrait of Jason and Tongues Untied, for instance, tell contemporary viewers as much about the individual stories about gay Black men presented on screen as about the communities (real and imagined) that their respective filmmakers brought to bear on their finished films. The following list of LGBTQ documentaries offers us windows into the past, allowing us glimpses into moments made worthy by their mere documentation. Yet to say nonfiction filmmaking has merely documented the LGBTQ community is to sell short the work that some of the seminal documentaries listed below have accomplished. Projects like 1977’s Word is Out, which compiled testimonials from men and women about their experiences coming to terms with their sexuality and coming out, began sketching on screen what a community could and did look like. Similarly, aptly-titled works like Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community and Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives offer not just potent history lessons but snapshots of how Americans were conceiving of their own community-building in the years following the 1969 Stonewall riots. There is also, of course, no way of discussing queer nonfiction cinema without calling up the urgent historiographical work of films like Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, How to Survive a Plague, and We Were Here. These projects remind us that telling the history of the AIDS crisis necessarily inverts ACT UP’s famous Silence=Death rallying cry: to memorialize those lost and to chronicle their activist fights is to refuse the erasure which so drove the early years of the crisis, both in the press and at the White House. The list below, which reaches back to the late 1960s and includes recent projects from around the globe that have further broadened what kinds of LGBTQ stories get told, is an invitation to see how queer and straight filmmakers alike have made real-life narratives pulsate with meaning. To look at this list of documentaries is to see the commingling of the one and the many. Together they create a kaleidoscopic vision of what the queer community has looked like on the big screen. Here are our 30 essential LGBTQ documentaries, in order of release. – Manuel Betancourt

Sky's 100 Best Sports Movies

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. "We take a look back at the top 100 sports movies, from Raging Bull to Chariots of Fire." The list appears to be unranked. Olympia counted as a single entry.

Slant's The 50 Best Films of 2021

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. By Slant Staff on December 10, 2021 A staggering number of visceral, ambitious, and glorious movies were released in 2021, covering a vast spectrum of tones, sizes, and intentions. And yet one always encounters people who continue to say that “cinema is dead.” Ask for elaboration and they often say that there’s nothing to see in the theaters, which isn’t, paradoxically, the same as saying that movies are well beyond their expiration date. Instead, movies that people tend to remember and take seriously have mostly scurried to streaming outlets, where they’ve proliferated and mutated in the abundance of choice. For one, the thing we used to call a “documentary” has taken on particularly radical contours, and films like Robert Greene’s Procession, a formally and socially audacious documentary-slash-personal confessional, have come as close as modern cinema has to evoking a stream of consciousness. It’s also playing on Netflix, available to every subscriber, and could easily be mistaken by the uninitiated for the kind of routine true-crime shows in which the outlet specializes. Such realizations lead us back to a familiar refrain: that there are lots of great movies without the theater experience to lend them a patina of exceptionalism. And this complication has been intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic and the panic that it’s understandably inspired in Hollywood, which is more determined than ever to rely on spectacle for the global bucks. The easiest short-term solution is to accept that this theatrical patina—save for the arthouses in the larger cities and the few formally adventurous filmmakers, such as Wes Anderson, who can get his work booked in big theaters—is an outdated notion and reacclimate to reality. For people who aren’t fortunate enough to live near a venue playing, say, Janicza Bravo’s Zola or Hamaguchi Ryûsuke’s Drive My Car, theaters are bloated stadiums playing mega-act dinosaurs, and should be accorded appropriate respect or lack thereof, while the best films are usually hidden somewhere on a streamer’s menu between Hallmark Christmas movies and various seasons of Everyone Loves Raymond. In other words, good movies require the effort of personal vigilance, and the films below merit the expansion of purview. In troubled times, these daring, highly disparate productions show that a cherished medium isn’t only not dying but may, in fact, just be beginning to get its sea legs. Cinema could be evolving into a form that’s more personal and eccentric than ever, in accordance with the newfound intimacy that arrives from learning that theaters can be lovely but are also essentially beside the point. Chuck Bowen Click [url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/best-films-of-2021-the-ballots/]here[/url] for our contributors’ individual ballots. Editor’s Note: Hong Sang-soo’s [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/dangsin-eolgul-apeseo/]In Front of Your Face[/url], which isn’t scheduled for release until 2022, has been removed from our list due to eligibility criteria. See you next year, Hong.

Slashfilm.com's The 95 Best Family Movies Ever

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. BY BRENDAN KNAPP/JULY 17, 2023 5:15 AM EST In my home, family movie night is a weekly tradition. It's a shared experience that safely introduces my children to new ideas, places, cultures, people, and emotions. It reinforces qualities like humility, persistence, and kindness. And, of course, it's fun to snuggle up on a couch to laugh, cry, and scream together. Movie night doesn't require conversation, though it might spark one after you watch a film that challenges viewers' perceptions of reality. And unlike in the theater, you can sit wherever you want, too, though a small couch will help keep young ones within a hug's reach during tense moments. Don't worry about snacks or bathroom breaks, either; both are only a quick pause and short walk away. To help you find the best films for the event, I put together a list of the 95 best family films you can watch today. They will make family movie night (or morning, or afternoon) memorable for the entire clan, from the kindergarten-aged on up. Some films feature innovative artistic techniques, kicking open doors to new universes of creative discovery. Some films sneak in a moral lesson, the medicine the cinematic spoonful of sugar helps go down. Some may inspire impromptu dance parties, especially during the end credits. And all 95 of these movies are perfect for film-loving families, including mine. {List is ordered alphabetically, and the four Toy Story films are counted as a single entry.} ...and the ones that didn't make the cut When compiling this list, I wanted to make sure everyone in the family could enjoy every film, from kindergarten-age on up. However, young viewers, even those who can read, might struggle with captions. That means that incredible foreign films like "[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/estiu+1993/]Summer 1993[/url]" and "[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/wadjda/]Wadjda[/url]" won't work for most U.S. families, although animated films that are dubbed in English will be just fine. Violence is another issue. I fell in love with "[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/raiders+of+the+lost+ark/]Raiders of the Lost Ark[/url]" after seeing it in the theater when I was four. That's two years after I saw my first horror movie (a miniseries, actually), "[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/salems+lot/]Salem's Lot[/url]." I could handle it. I know my five-year-old daughter cannot. Many parents don't want their children to see a Nazi's face melt or bald men get butchered by propeller blades — and that's okay. "Raiders" and other violent, scary classics I loved as a kid, like "[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/poltergeist/]Poltergeist[/url]," "[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/conan+the+barbarian/]Conan the Barbarian[/url]," and "[url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/jurassic+park/]Jurassic Park[/url]," can go on other family film lists, but not this one. With my picks, you may need to offer a few comforting snuggles or answer questions about violence and intolerance, but I want to make sure that everyone feels comfortable watching these films. That said, you know your kids best; if you think they're ready for slightly more mature fare, there's no better way to introduce it than by viewing the movies together.

Stuff's 25 Best Prison Movies Ever

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The greatest caged classics of all time – all boxed into one list Sam Kieldsen 8 August 2013 / 14:45 BST Choky. The pen. The can. The cooler. The clink. The nick. The big house. And, indeed, the slammer. Just some of the many slang terms we have prison, and the concept of a life behind bars has proven a rich seam for filmmakers to mine – whether they’re making a comedy, an action romp, a crusading morality tale, a musical, a sports film (yes, there’s actually quite a few of these) or simply a piece of good old-fashioned entertainment. Since people have made movies, movies have been set in jails, and there’s an absolutely brilliant stack of must-see prison flicks that should be on any self-respecting cineaste’s watch list. In between sips of (surprisingly potent) ‘wine’ lovingly fermented in our toilet cistern, we’ve racked our collective brains and compiled this line-up of our 25 favourite films about life in the joint. All you need to do is bring the popcorn – and the shiv. Note: List does not appear to be ranked.

Suphannahong Award - Best Thai Film

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. From Wikipedia: The first film awards dedicated specifically to Thai films was inspired by Thailand's hosting of the 23rd Asia-Pacific Film Festival in 1977. The Film Producers Association of Thailand then hosted the first Golden Suphannahong Awards in 1979, using the same trophy design created earlier for the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. The Golden Suphannahong Awards were held a total of seven times, and ceased after 1988 when the Film Producers Association stepped back from its de facto leadership role in the Thai film industry. The Federation of National Film Associations (now the MPC), which took over that role, began presenting a new series of awards, known as the National Film Awards, in 1992 (for films released in 1991). The ceremony was held in association with the Office of the Prime Minister's Film Promotion Board and the government public relations department, and the first awards were presented by Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. It employed a "Milkyway to the Stars" symbol for its trophies. The awards were held annually for nine years, but was halted in 2001 as the Thai film industry produced few films in 2000. The federation took over responsibility for the event and resumed the awards in 2002. It re-adopted the Suphannahong as its trophy, now redesigned in a more modern style. The awards, now known as the Suphannahong National Film Awards, have been held annually since. Missing from imdb/icm: [url=https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%9B%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%B2_(%E0%B8%A0%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C)]Rambutan (1980)[/url], ราชินีดอกหญ้า (1986), คนแซ่ลี้ (1993) [url=https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%98%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%A0%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%AB%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B4]Additional source[/url].

The Fill-In Filmography

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. "A Categorical Chart of 1,500 Must-See Movies A massive mapping of cinematic genres (with representative movies for each category), this big-screen behemoth is fully customizable to reflect your personal tastes—just grab a pencil and fill in the circle next to each film to mark it as “Loved It,” “Liked It,” or merely “Watched It”! Whether your prefer Period Pieces, Musicals, or tales of Haunted Dolls, there’s something here for cinephiles of every sort." Taken from the Pop Chart poster. Films are listed by section included in the chart. The sections are ordered roughly from top left to bottom right on the poster. Please note that the section that a film is listed in may be spoiler. Some categories are spread among two or more sections (such as Sports in Drama (328-339), Based on a True Story (413-426) and Comedy (449-460). I don't know why there are more than 1,500 films in the list. 1-925: Real World *1-339: Drama ** 1-104: Love Story *** 1-45: Rom-Com (37-45: Screwball) *** 46-49: Love and Crime *** 50-54: One Day *** 55-65: Ill-Starred *** 66-71: Erotica *** 72-77: Love Triangle *** 78-91: Troubled Love *** 92-98: Break-Ups *** 99-104: Men Behaving Badly ** 105-111: Multiple Stories ** 112-120: Addiction ** 121-144: Family ** 145-180: Coming of Age (170-186: Apprenticeship, 174-180: Criminal Elements) ** 181-187: Manipulators/Schemes ** 188-250: Period Piece (208-211: Feudal Japan, 212-221: Life in Wartime, 222-246: War Movies, 247-250: Sword & Sandal) ** 251-284: Psychological Journey (261-265: Literal Journey, 266-274: Suburban Sadness, 275-284: Perseverance) ** 285-296: Friendships ** 297-304: Rise and Fall ** 305-327: Workplace/Professional (313-317: Medical, 318-327: Legal) ** 328-339: Sports *340-436: Based on a True Story ** 340-372: Biopic *** 343-347: Meta-Biopic *** 348-364: Portrait of the Artist (357-364: Music) *** 365-372: Politics ** 373-385: Wartime/Upheaval ** 386-391: Single Event ** 392-412: True Crime ** 413-426: Sports (422-426: Boxing) ** 427-436: Struggle *437-583: Comedy ** 437-448: Buddy Comedy (446-448: Unlikely Friends) ** 449-460: Sports (457-460: Underdogs) ** 461-493: Black Comedy/Satire (484-493: Political) ** 494-507: Farce/Spoof (503-507: Absurd) ** 508-517: Workplace/Occupational ** 518-535: Teen (534-535: College) ** 536-542: Screwball (536-538: Fish Out of Water, 539-542: Costume) ** 543-552: Road Comedy **553-556: Family **557-564: Crime Comedy **565-570: Mockumentary **571-573: Kids in Peril **574-583: Buffoons *584-696: Action ** 584-628: Western *** 594-601: Traditional (597-601: Lawmen) *** 602-628: Revisionist (616-618: Acid Western, 619-628: Spaghetti) ** 629-632: Swashbuckler ** 633-636: Disaster ** 637-659: Team (648-659: Buddy Action) ** 660-673: Martial Arts (670-673: Tournament) ** 674-696: Person with a Particular Set of Skills (691-696: One Man in One Place) *697-925: Thriller ** 697-778: Crime *** 697-708: Investigation *** 709-716: Amateur Plots *** 717-740: Gangster (732-733: Gangster Revenge, 734-740: Mafia) *** 741-766: Heist (764-766: One Last Score) *** 767-772: Kidnapping *** 773-778: Hitmen ** 779-807: Slasher (789-794: Day-Specific, 795-799: Non-Human Threat, 800-807: Splatter/Torture) ** 808-817: Erotic ** 818-819: Meta-Thriller ** 820-824: Conspiracy ** 825-831: Cults ** 832-843: Spy ** 844-868: Psychological (861-868: Sociopaths) ** 869-890: Film Noir (881-890: Neo-Noir) ** 891-907: Mystery (891-894: Whodunnit, 895-898: Procedural, 899-903: Provisional Detective, 904-907: Unreliable Minds) ** 908-921: Survival (915-921: Contained Survival) ** 922-925: Chase 926-1500: Magical World *926-1152: Fantasy **926-979: Touch of Magic ***942-948: Hidden Worlds ***949-952: Reveries ***953-955: Do-Overs ***956-961: Body Change ***962-973: Friendly Creatures ***974-979: Afterlife **980-984: Postmodern **985-998: Dark Fantasy **999-1004: Modern Myth **1005-1024: Realistic Musicals (1020-1024: Rock Musical) **1025-1055: Superhero (1048:1055: Non-Traditional) **1056-1069: Talking Animals **1070-1079: Sword & Sorcery **1080-1093: Surrealist/Dreamscapes **1094-1140: High Fantasy (1126-1135: Epic, 1136-1140: Wuxia) **1141-1152: Fantasy Adventure *1153-1347: Sci-Fi **1153-1220: Creature Feature ***1153-1162: Giant Monster ***1163-1169: Mutations ***1170-1205: Extraterrestrial (1189-1193: Aliens Among Us, 1194-1205: Alien Invasion) ***1206-1216: Transhumanism ***1217-1220: Prehistoric Relic **1221-1255: Space (1237-1239: Cosmic Space Story, 1240-1255: Space Opera) **1256-1261: Time Travel **1262-1267: Earth-Scale Disaster **1268-1302: Dystopia (1285-1288: Dystopian Games, 1289-1302: Post-Apocalyptic) **1303-1321: Artificial Life (1313-1315: Clones, 1316-1321: Man vs. Machine) **1322-1347: Heady Sci-Fi ***1327-1333: Alternate Selves ***1334-1341: False Realities ***1342-1347: Time Travel Loops *1348-1518: Horror **1348-1409: Creature ***1359-1362: Small Creatures ***1363-1375: Werewolf ***1376-1409: Zombie (1376-1387: Traditional, 1388-1398: Fast Zombies, 1399-1405: Zomedy, 1406-1409: Alt Zombie) **1410-1414: Meta Horror **1415-1422: Anthology **1423-1436: Vampire (1428-1436: Modern) **1437-1518: Paranormal ***1437-1444: Entities ***1445-1449: Curses ***1450-1455: Supernatural Slasher ***1456-1461: Big Twist ***1462-1485: Demonic (1475-1479: Witches, 1480-1485: Possession) ***1486-1507: Haunted Things (1490-1493: Dolls, 1494-1507: Houses) ***1508-1514: Horrifying Powers ***1515-1518: Cults

The Guardian's 20 Best African Films – Ranked!

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. As the UK’s leading African film festivals showcase the past decade’s classics online, we pick 20 great landmarks from the continent’s dazzling movie-making history by Peter Bradshaw Thu 1 Oct 2020 13.26 BST

Time Out's The Best Korean Movies of All Time

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Loved Parasite? Dig deeper into Hallyuwood’s awesome back catalogue Written by James Balmont Contributors Phil de Semlyen & Matthew Singer Tuesday 10 May 2022 Contrary to believe in some corners of the west, South Korean cinema existed long before Parasite and Squid Game. Sure, Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 Oscar-winner might represent the pinnacle of the country’s movie industry – and the massive success of Netflix’s Squid Game confirmed it as a worldwide player in streaming too – but its history runs much deeper. For decades, Korean filmmakers have been producing thrilling, imaginative work with a distinctive vision, subverting genre conventions along the way. Entering its renaissance era in the early 2000s, charged by films like Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy and Joon-ho’s The Host, Korean movies became known for their ultraviolence and political invective, but dig into the canon and you’ll find a wide range of complex emotions expressed in many different ways. Where to start? Well, here: with some of the best Korean movies ever made.

Venice Film Festival Queer Lion Award

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The Queer Lion Award was created in 2007 thanks to the efforts of Daniel N. Casagrande, journalist and film critic, and Marco Müller, back then director of the Venice Film Festival, as a collateral prize for the “Best Film with Homosexual & Queer Culture Contents”. From the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_Lion]Wikipedia article[/url]: All the movies containing LGBTQ themes, stories, plots, or characters, presented in any of the sections of the Venice Film Festival are considered eligible for the award. Specifically, these sections are: Concorso (Competition), Fuori Concorso (Out of Competition), Orizzonti (Horizons), Controcampo italiano (Italian Reverse Shot), Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days), and Settimana Internazionale della Critica (International Critics' Week). The Queer Lion jury, composed of journalists, directors, critics, persons with a deep knowledge of cinema, views all the movies deemed to contain noteworthy LGBTQ elements during the Venice Film Festival, picking the "best film" among them.

Vulture's The 50 Greatest War Movies Ever Made

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A look back at a genre that has inspired a century of cinema. By Keith Phipps NOV. 11, 2020 This article originally ran in January and is being republished with the addition of Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods. Speaking to Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune in 1973, Francois Truffaut made an observation that’s cast a shadow over war movies ever since, even those seemingly opposed to war. Asked why there’s little killing in his films, Truffaut replied, “I find that violence is very ambiguous in movies. For example, some films claim to be antiwar, but I don’t think I’ve really seen an antiwar film. Every film about war ends up being pro-war.” The evidence often bears him out. In Anthony Swofford’s Gulf War memoir Jarhead, Swofford recalls joining fellow recruits in getting pumped up while watching Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, two of the most famous films about the horrors of war. (On the occasion of the death of R. Lee Ermey, the real-life drill instructor who played the same in Full Metal Jacket, Swofford offered a remembrance in the New York Times with the headline “Full Metal Jacket Seduced My Generation and Sent Us to War.”) Is it true that movies glamorize whatever they touch, no matter how horrific? And if a war movie isn’t to sound a warning against war, what purpose does it serve? Even if Truffaut’s wrong — and it’s hard to see his observation applying to at least some of the movies on this list — it might be best to remove the burden of making the world a better place from war movies. It’s a lot to ask, especially since war seems to be baked into human existence. So, like other inescapable elements of the human experience, we tell stories about war, stories that reflect our attitudes toward it, and how they shift over time. War movies reflect the artistic impulses of their creators, but they also reflect the attitudes of the times and places in which they were created. A World War II film made in the midst of the war, for instance, might serve a propagandist purpose than one made after the war ends, when there’s more room for nuance and complexity, but it also might not. Maybe the ultimate purpose of a war movie is to let others hear the force of these stories. Another director, Sam Fuller, once offered a quote that doesn’t necessarily contradict Truffaut’s observation but better explains the impulse to make war movies: “A war film’s objective, no matter how personal or emotional, is to make a viewer feel war.” The films selected for this list of the genre’s most essential entries often have little in common, but they do share that. Each offers a vision that asks viewers to consider and understand the experience of war, be it in the trenches of World War I, the wilderness skirmishes of Civil War militias, or the still-ongoing conflicts that have helped define 21st-century warfare. Compiled as Sam Mendes’s stylistically audacious World War I film, [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/1917/]1917[/url], hit theaters, this list opts for a somewhat narrow definition of a war movie, focusing on films that deal with the experiences of soldiers during wartime. That means no films about the experience of returning from war ([url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/coming+home/]Coming Home[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/the+best+years+of+our+lives/]The Best Years of Our Lives[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/first+blood/]First Blood[/url]) or of civilian life during wartime ([url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/mrs.+miniver/]Mrs. Miniver[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/jeux+interdits/]Forbidden Games[/url], [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/hope+and+glory/]Hope and Glory[/url]) or of wartime stories whose action rests far away from the battlefield ([url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/casablanca/]Casablanca[/url]). It also leaves films primarily about the Holocaust out of consideration, as they seem substantively different from other sorts of war films. Also excluded are films that blur genres, like the military science fiction of [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/starship+troopers/]Starship Troopers[/url] and [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/aliens/]Aliens[/url] (even if the latter does have a lot to say about the Vietnam War). That eliminates many great movies, but it leaves room for many others, starting with a film made at the height of World War II in an attempt to help rally a nation with a story of an operation whose success required secrecy, extensive training, and beating overwhelming odds. Notes: [url=https://www.icheckmovies.com/movies/nobi/]Nobi (1959)[/url] was originally #12, but was replaced by Da 5 Bloods. The #12 spot is still missing in the updated list. Che 1 & 2 are counted as a single film.

Wolfcrow's 100 Films to See for Cinematography

Favs/dislikes: 2:0. Great films all filmmakers and cinematographers must see for cinematography. By wolfcrow. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zer1JOOxZQ]Watch the video on YouTube[/url] Criteria for grading a film on cinematography Most people, even filmmakers who should know better, have the erroneous notion that cinematography is all about pretty pictures. Not true. Cinematography has multiple disciplines. I’m looking for mastery over all disciplines. Truly great cinematography is also pioneering, and advances the art and craft of filmmaking. [url=https://wolfcrow.com/what-is-cinematography/]Here’s my definition of cinematography[/url]. Here are the four disciplines I’ve considered: 1 Film lighting artistry Film lighting decides how everything looks. To get a perfect score in this category the film must have pioneering lighting. What if there’s no artificial lighting? In that case I consider natural lighting, practicals and exposure. 2 Camera angles artistry Composition is important in photography. In cinematography, composition is the art of framing multiple shots that need to be combined as a coherent whole. Most times these shots are from different angles. Sometimes it’s just a fixed angle, and sometimes there’s motion, too. Finding the right angle is hard. Finding it consistently over an entire film is genius. A perfect score in this category signifies the film broke new ground in composition, camera angles and blocking. 3 Camera movement artistry When you add camera movement, things get really tricky. To paraphrase Orson Welles in gender neutral terms, that’s what separates the greats from the pretenders. To get a perfect score a film must either advance the art and craft of camera motion. In other words, every frame a painting, even when it moves. What if there’s no camera movement? The score reflects camera angles artistry. After all, restraint is much the hallmark of art as abandon. However, when deciding between two movies of other equally great cinematography disciplines, the one that utilized camera movement gets the advantage, because it’s that much harder. 4 Color design artistry A great part of cinematography is production design. Attention paid to the color palette pays off with a more coherent world and mood. Why must it not be rewarded? To get a perfect score here the colors must have advanced the art of cinematography. Movies shot on film get the benefit here, because most things had to be done on set. Color timing wasn’t as precise as the color grading tools we have today. What if there’s no color? A significant portion of great cinematography is in black and white. One can approach this from two perspectives. Either one assumes that filming in color is tougher, because the added element of color makes everything harder. On the other hand you can assume that black and white has its own language, and it must be treated on par with color. I decided to go with a compromise you might not agree with, but works for me. I averaged the scores of the other three categories and that’s what black and white films get under the color category. Strangely, it doesn’t lead to unexpected results. A more direct comparison is impossible anyway. What happens when there’s a tie? I value film over digital. I value the year the film was made, and otherwise I value camera movement above other departments because it just makes all the other cinematography disciplines that much harder to perfect as well. When you move the camera, lighting becomes more complicated, camera angles become harder to pull off, and color needs to be perfect. I value color second, film lighting third, and camera angles fourth. Don’t get me wrong. Camera angles artistry is critically important, and is the foundation of cinematography. However, it is also the one with convention to guide you. It’s a safety net that other disciplines don’t have.

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