Brianland

A question prompted by repeated viewings of One Battle After Another . . . What do  I  think are the Greatest Movies Ever Made? [as of April 2026 . . . subject to change  🙂 ] Robert Altman’s masterpiece The Player has movie exec Griffin Mills’ list the elements that make a successful film: “Suspense, […]

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  I recently stumbled on a Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) interview about Boogie Nights from 1997 and began revisiting of his work. I’ve now seen all of his nine written-&-directed films, most more than once, and he’s certainly up there with the greatest of the active mid-career contemporary filmmakers. Since Boogie Nights he’s been compared […]

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. One thing I learned during my lockdown Film Studies deepdive is just how subjective movies are.  I know all art is subjective, but maybe film is the most because of how it’s every art form blended together and being experienced at once. Something I picked up from a Tarantino interview — that a book […]

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