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1. Miracle
2. Il Buco
3. The Power of the Dog
4. The Hand of God
5. Dune
6. Happening
7. Full Time
8. Atlantide
9. You Resemble Me
10. The Inner Cage

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Gone with the Wind
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Citizen Kane
• How Green Was My Valley
• Casablanca
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Brief Encounter
• Rome, Open City
• Gilda
• Great Expectations

...plus 97 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the films I've seen during the 77th edition of the Venice festival, ranked.

1. Assandira
2. Hopper/Welles
3. Crazy, Not Insane
4. Nomadland
5. The Man Who Sold His Skin
6. Quo Vadis, Aida?
7. Miss Marx
8. Mandibles
9. New Order
10. The Furnace

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Video essays are great! They deepen our love for films and for the cinematic language, in all its forms. So I thought I'd make a list with my favourites, in order to organize and to share them. Suggestions are welcome.
I started with only essays, but I ended up including also some interviews, podcasts and even a couple of songs. Overall, everything that can help appreciate a film or an artist is welcome here.
Links are in the description. It is all sorted in alphabetical order. Video about cinema in general (its form, its history, its genres or its tools) are filed under 8½. It is my favourite film about film, so it seems an appropriate burden for it to carry. Video about a single director or actor/actress are usually filed under his/her most famous work, but it can vary, depending on what films are considered in the video, or other random elements (for example, if you want to watch the different shades of anger that Jack Nicholson can express, you will find what you need under Anger Management).
Enjoy!

• 8½

  On form

  Channel Criswell:
  Colour in Storytelling
  Composition in Storytelling
  Editing in Storytelling

  Every Frame a Painting:
  How Does an Editor Think and Feel?

  Folding Ideas: Ludonarrative Dissonance

  Lessons from the Screenplay: Defining an Act

  Patrick (H) Willems:
  Realism: How Much Does it Really Matter?

  
  On history

  Channel Criswell:
  Breaking The Rules - The French New Wave

  Steven Benedict:
  Silent Cinema

  
  On genres

  Channel Criswell:
  Let's Discuss Horror

  Folding Ideas:
  Folding Ideas - The People vs Clark Kent
  Folding Ideas - Superhero Follow Up

  The Long Take:
  An Introduction: Three Kinds of Filmt

  
  On tools

  Dan Golding: A Theory of Film Music

  Digging Deeper:
  CGI: Embracing the Intangible

  Every Frame a Painting:
  A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film
  In Praise of Chairs

  RocketJump Film School:
  Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't)

  Steven Benedict:
  Credits
  Great Openings – Part One; Great Openings – Part Two
  Slow-Motion
  Trailers
  Voice-Over in Film
  Freeze-Frame

  The Nerdwriter:
  How To Use Film Titles Creatively

  The Royal Ocean Film Society:
  Every Face Tells A Story | The Language of Cinema
  Saul Bass- Style is Substance
  Storytelling With Sound

• 10 Cloverfield Lane

  Film&Stuff: 10 Cloverfield Lane | Perfecting the Mystery Box

• 12 Angry Men

  The Royal Ocean Film Society: 12 Angry Men- A Lesson in Staging

• 12 Years a Slave

  Channel Criswell: 12 Years A Slave - The Cinema of Time

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

  Channel Criswell: Stanley Kubrick - The Cinematic Experience

  Filmmaker IQ: The History and Science of the Slit Scan Effect used in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

  Eyes On Cinema: Stanley Kubrick on the meaning of the ending of 2001 in a rare 1980 interview

• 300

  Folding Ideas: Folding Ideas - 300

• Akira

  The Nerdwriter: AKIRA: How To Animate Light

• Alien

  kaptainkristian: Alien - H. R. Giger's Beautiful Monster

  The Discarded Image: Alien - Engineering Terror

  
  The Long Take: An Analysis: Alien

• Alien: Covenant

  Film Critic Hulk: Ridley Scott, Cinema’s Underrated Weirdo

  
  Patrick (H) Willems: Patrick Explains ALIEN: COVENANT (And Why It's Great)

• Aliens

  Collative Learning: 10 reasons Jim Cameron's ALIENS is the best feminism movie ever made

  The Long Take: An Analysis: Aliens

...plus 302 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Roma
• The House That Jack Built
• The Other Side of the Wind
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
• The Favourite
• Suspiria
• Annihilation
• Dogman
• Widows
• First Reformed

...plus 9 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Parasite
• Marriage Story
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• The Lighthouse
• Ema
• Uncut Gems
• Primal
• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
• The Painted Bird

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Twin Peaks: The Return
2. Phantom Thread
3. You Were Never Really Here
4. The Florida Project
5. Blade Runner 2049
6. Song to Song
7. Baby Driver
8. First Reformed
9. Call Me by Your Name
10. The Killing of a Sacred Deer

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Marriage Story
• Parasite
• Portrait of a Lady on Fire
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
• Ema
• The Painted Bird
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Battle of Algiers
• The Irishman

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the films I've seen during the 76th edition of the Venice festival, ranked.

1. Ema
2. The Painted Bird
3. An Officer and a Spy
4. The Domain
5. The Truth
6. The Mayor of Rione Sanità
7. The Perfect Candidate
8. Babyteeth
9. Joker
10. Volare

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. 1900
2. The Last Days of Disco
3. Roma
4. Phantom Thread
5. Paper Moon
6. Picnic at Hanging Rock
7. Only Angels Have Wings
8. The Other Side of the Wind
9. Rumble Fish
10. Mission: Impossible – Fallout

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

These are my favourite films that have come out this year, and the one I recommend to be seen. I still need to catch up with a lot of them, so this list will be updated in the months.

1. It's Only the End of the World
2. Silence
3. Nocturnal Animals
4. Arrival
5. Jackie
6. Moonlight
7. The Nice Guys
8. David Lynch: The Art Life
9. The Handmaiden
10. Elle

...plus 25 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. How Green Was My Valley
2. Twin Peaks: The Return
3. Peeping Tom
4. Stalker
5. Being There
6. Singin' in the Rain
7. The Grapes of Wrath
8. The Big Sleep
9. Silence
10. Forbidden Games

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

2015 from best to worst. Films' rank is based on the long time mark they left on me more than the star rating I gave them a few days after their view.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Witch
3. World of Tomorrow
4. Carol
5. Crimson Peak
6. The Lobster
7. Son of Saul
8. Tanna
9. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
10. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation

...plus 45 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Suggestions are welcome.

• 13th
• American Honey
• Aquarius
• Cameraperson
• Captain Fantastic
• Certain Women
• Doctor Strange
• Don't Breathe
• I, Daniel Blake
• Kate Plays Christine

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Night of the Hunter
2. Great Expectations
3. Ivan's Childhood
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Forbidden Games
6. Mud
7. Moonlight
8. Moonrise Kingdom

A lethal mix of machismo and explosions: the evolution of action movies from the 80s to these days.

• Mad Max
• Escape from New York
• Mad Max 2
• Conan the Barbarian
• First Blood
• 48 Hrs.
• Conan the Destroyer
• Missing in Action
• The Terminator
• Rambo: First Blood Part II

...plus 90 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

They don't need to be cops, but sure enough they must be buddies!

1. Lethal Weapon
2. Midnight Run
3. The Nice Guys
4. Die Hard With a Vengeance
5. The Last Boy Scout
6. Hot Fuzz
7. Tango & Cash
8. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
9. Lethal Weapon 2
10. Sherlock Holmes

Sadly, almost all the The Rock flicks I've seen.

• Hercules
• San Andreas
• Central Intelligence
• The Fate of the Furious
• Baywatch

Organizzati in base alla difficoltà di visione

1-10 peso
11-32 medio
33-49 leggero
50-65 leggerissimo

1. Europa
2. The Double Life of Véronique
3. Under the Skin
4. Possession
5. Audition
6. Miller's Crossing
7. Silence
8. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
9. Lost Highway
10. Aguirre, the Wrath of God

...plus 55 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
4. Mad Max 2
5. Death Proof
6. Mad Max
7. Duel
8. Thelma & Louise
9. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
10. The Blues Brothers

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Double Life of Véronique
2. Before Sunset
3. Breaking the Waves
4. Aliens
5. Mulholland Drive
6. Dancer in the Dark
7. The Silence of the Lambs
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Thelma & Louise
10. Pan's Labyrinth

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Stanley Kubrick è stato uno dei più grandi registi della storia del cinema. Le sue opere, oltre che tecnicamente perfette, presentano sempre numerose possibilità di lettura e, attraverso la fotografia e la composizione scenica, parlano al subconscio dello spettatore, rendendo ogni visione una nuova scoperta.

1. Barry Lyndon
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. The Shining
5. Full Metal Jacket
6. Paths of Glory
7. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
8. Lolita
9. Spartacus
10. A Clockwork Orange

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Night of the Hunter

   The first (and only) feature by Charles Laughton is a perfect mix of German Expressionism and classic hollywood filmmaking. Quite probably the best coming of age film ever made.

2. 12 Angry Men

   Men. In a room. Talking.

   Effectiveness through simplicity.

3. Citizen Kane

   Well, you know... It's terrific!

4. A Single Man

   A Single Man is made with such confidence and honesty that is hard to belive it is a first feature. Also it contains Colin Firth's greatest performance, and one of the best I've seen in my film-watching carrer.

5. Badlands
6. Breathless
7. Ivan's Childhood

   Tarkovsky's humanity is such a painful beauty to watch.

8. Duel
9. Eraserhead

   It will screw your brain out

10. Fists in the Pocket

    Italian cinema from its golden age, with a touch of nouvelle vague and a fistful of nihilism.

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All the Arnold movies I've seen (excluding the cameo ones and those Expendables garbage!) ranked from favourite to least favourite.

1. Predator
2. The Terminator
3. Pumping Iron
4. Conan the Barbarian
5. Commando
6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
7. The Running Man
8. Total Recall
9. True Lies
10. Batman & Robin

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My endless journey through cinema has seen the end of another year. Among the films I have discovered in 2016, these are the ones I love the most.

A big thanks goes to this great website, to its community and to the friends I share this ion with. Thank you for showing that there is always another masterpiece around the corner.

1. Doctor Zhivago
2. Rocco and His Brothers
3. The Conformist
4. In the Mood for Love
5. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
6. My Darling Clementine
7. Great Expectations
8. M
9. Europa
10. Dekalog

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Based on Letterboxd dating.

1. The Salt of the Earth
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. The Look of Silence
4. Gone Girl
5. Whiplash
6. The Lego Movie
7. Force Majeure
8. Inherent Vice
9. Winter Sleep
10. Girlhood

...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• The Infernal Cakewalk
• Secrets of the Soul

  “This was a silent movie whose flashback structure was unlike anything else. Secrets of the Soul looked almost experimental.”

• The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Nosferatu
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• Metropolis
• Napoleon
• The Power and the Glory

  “Directed by William K. Howard and written by Preston Sturges, it had a structure that Mankiewicz and Welles used for Citizen Kane.”

• It Happened One Night

  “I didn’t think much of this Frank Capra film, until I saw it recently on the big screen. And I discovered it was a masterpiece! The body language of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, the way they related--it’s really quite remarkable.”

• Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

...plus 110 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Oh this is a great idea, and it shouldn't be too difficoult! This challenge is the perfect opportunity to delete some must-see movies from my watchlist, and hopefully to discover a couple of hidden gems.
Reviews may come in Italian.

For reference, here there is the original list by Monsieur Flynn.

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God

  Week 1: September 6th-12th
  Roger Ebert Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen movie from the Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week1'

• Top Hat

  Week 2: September 13th-19th
  30's Musicals Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen musical from the 30s.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week2'

• Rashomon

  Week 3: September 20th-26th
  Master of the East Week; Akira Kurosawa

  Watch at least one previously unseen Kurosawa-movie.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week3'

• West Side Story

  Week 4: September 27th-October 3rd
  60's Blockbuster Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen 60s-movie amongst the top 50 grossing ones at the US box office.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week4'

• The Adventures of Robin Hood

  Week 5: October 4th-10th
  PUNQ Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen movie that made it into one of PUNQ's top ten spots at any of his yearly lists taking on the years prior to 1940.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week5'

• The Double Life of Véronique

  Week 6: October 11th-17th
  Eastern European Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen movie from one of the following directors; Czech Jan Švankmajer, Polish Krzysztof Kieślowski, Turkish Nuri Bilge Ceylan or Hungarian Béla Tarr.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week6'

• Audition

  Week 7: October 18th-24th
  Midnight Eye Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen movie from one of the seven Midnight Eye crew's top ten lists, or from the top list from their reader's poll.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week7'

• Frankenstein

  Week 8: October 25th-31st
  Halloween Special: Old School Horror Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen horror-movie made between 1920 and 1935.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week8'

• Sorcerer

  Week 9: November 1st-6th
  Hardboiled Wonderland Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen Hardboiled Wonderland-movie.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week9'

• The Searchers

  Week 10: November 8th-14th
  Western Week

  Watch at least one previously unseen western-movie made by Ford, Leone or Boetticher.

  Weekly tag: 'lsc2015-16 week10'

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. The Searchers
3. The Double Life of Véronique
4. The Salt of the Earth
5. Before Sunrise
6. Before Sunset
7. Before Midnight
8. Chinatown
9. Rope
10. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Broken Blossoms
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
• The Gold Rush
• The Fall of the House of Usher
• Un Chien Andalou
• Morocco
• The Congress Dances
• The 3 Penny Opera
• Lover Divine

...plus 91 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Venti film per gli anni venti

1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
2. The Phantom Carriage
3. The Kid
4. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
5. Nosferatu
6. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
7. Safety Last!
8. Sherlock Jr.
9. The Last Laugh
10. Battleship Potemkin

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Godfather Part II
2. Barry Lyndon
3. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. Breaking the Waves
5. The Elephant Man
6. Citizen Kane
7. Dancer in the Dark
8. The Phantom Carriage
9. Rear Window
10. Solaris

...plus 40 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.