#greatest films of all time

[blacknarcissus]

In heaven’s abode.

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[whitesunlars]

rip all the parents who didn’t check the rating of barbie and took their slightly too young children to a pg-13 movie and now need to explain what a gynecologist is to their kids

[highonfilms]

Roger Ebert's Ten Greatest Films of All Time

[geeburieru]

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time watch challenge #7 - Madame de…, directedy by Max Orphus, 1953 (film =90 out of 100)

The next group of tied films are just as varied as the films tied for 95th place on this list and I’m starting this batch with Madame de…. by Max Orphus, also known as The Earings of Madame de… here in the states. The film tells the story of Louise, an aristocratic woman who is married to a high ranking general in the French army. The marriage between these two resembles a companionship rather than a relationship, with the two being childless and sleeping in separate rooms. The core drama is centered around a pair of earrings that were gifted to Louise by her husband on their wedding day, which she sells back to the jeweler who made them and then pretends to have lost. The earrings keep reappearing and disappearing throughout the film, representing loneliness, indifference, love, desperation, and obsession all at different points depending on who has given the earrings to whom and why the earrings are forced to move hands once again.

Orphus’ camerawork is so delicate and fine-tuned here. I think it’s rather rare to see a camera that centers a woman like this in the time it was made. A lot of these French romances of the time period tended to focus on a male character’s feelings on a woman, but that’s not the case here. Orphus puts Louise’s feelings first and foremost, with the opening moments of the film focusing on just her hands as she moves through her jewelry trying to decide what she wants to keep and what she wants to get rid off, finally settling in on a view of how she looks in the mirror, holding the earrings to her face. This way of moving the camera and taking control of the space in order to center things on Louise is carried out even in how Orphus weaves the camera in and out of rooms. There’s so many fantastic ways he uses objects as barriers both in shots and as metaphors for the society that Louise, her husband, and her new lover live in.

In the 2012 list, Madame de… was tied for 93rd place with nine other films. Most of these films also made jumps higher in the list and those that didn’t fell off in favor of more recent films and first time appearances thanks to the wider voting base for the 2022 list. I do find it interesting that despite how different Madame de… is from the other films it shared 93rd place with in 2012 is that it made the smallest jump this year even though the expanded voting range theoretically should’ve allowed it to rise much higher in the rankings like other women-centric films did this time around.

[crumblingaura]

No number one, though.

[o-the-mts]

Sight & Sound The Greatest Films of All Time 2022

Sight & Sound The Greatest Films of All Time 2022

In some exciting news for cinephiles, The British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound magazine released the results decennial poll of The Greatest Films of All Time for 2022.  This is considered one of the most prestigious lists of great movies with ballots submitted by film critics from around the world.  The big news is that there is a new number one film, Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce 1080…

[shesnake]

I'm Ria Khan. I am going to be a stuntwoman. My sister Lena is the only person who believes in me, but lately she's been seeing this guy who I think is a bit of a smarmy wanker. Now, I'm not being dramatic, but these people are evil.

Polite Society (2023) dir. Nida Manzoor

[hooked-on-elvis]

"ᴇʟᴠɪꜱ ᴏɴ ᴛᴏᴜʀ" (ᴍɢᴍ, 1972) — ᴅɪʀ. ᴘɪᴇʀʀᴇ ᴀᴅɪᴅɢᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴏʙᴇʀᴛ ᴀʙᴇʟ

[nedlittle]

i think the next time tumblr makes up a movie in three-four months time it should be an unfinished 1934 screwball that was shut down halfway through production when the hays code came into action and as a result only exists as a half-edited 30 minute negative that mgm was supposed to burn but didn't. i think that would be fun

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

Arctic Monkeys Exhibition for TBHC, Sheffield 2018 (photos by @subtle-as-an-earthquake)

[hazel-callahan]

i love you, kit tanthalos ∞

[talk-danmei-to-me]

Mo Ran literally took Chu Wanning on a magic carpet sword ride.

[highonfilms]

Roger Ebert’s Ten Greatest Films of All Time

[geeburieru]

Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time watch challenge #6 - A Man Escaped, directedy by Rebert Bresson, 1956 (film =95 out of 100)

My first Bresson film, A Man Escaped is the last film in the six-way tie for 95th place on the 2022 Sight and Sound list. Based on the memoir of André Devigny, the film tells the story of a man named Fontaine who was taken to Montuc prison during Nazi occupation of France. Over the course of several weeks, he gradually and carefully puts together a plan to escape, practically piecemealing it as he gains access to new information and new tools.

I can see why Bresson was drawn to this story. He, too, was a prisoner of war at the hands of the Germans. But more than that, Devigny’s story is one of human resilience and ingenuity. Bresson’s filmmaking is relatively minimalist compared to some of the other films I’ve seen on this list so far, with Black Girl, the only other French film so far, sharing similar sensibilities. However, while Black Girl’s minimalism was to highlight the differences between the cultures and the isolation the heroine of the story felt, A Man Escaped’s use of minimalism heightens the tension throughout the film while also giving every single delicate movement of the characters, staging, and camera much more meaning. You can tell that Bresson put so much of himself and his own experiences into this film.

[bedupolker]

just watched avatar 2. the only really positive thing i have to say about it is that it’s cool how james cameron predicted that thing with orcas attacking yachts.