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, […]
Greatest Movies Ever Made — Brian’s Version
April 12th, 2026 · 20 Comments · Movies
Tags: Alan Pakula·Alfred Hitchcock·Arthur Miller·Christopher Guest·Damien Chazelle·David Fincher·David Mamet·George Roy Hill·James Mangold·John Huston·Martin Scorsese·Michael Wadleigh·Mike Nichols·Norman Jewison·Paul Thomas Anderson·Quentin Tarantino·Rian Johnson·Rob Reiner·Robert Altman·Robert Zemeckis·Steven Soderbergh·Tony Scott
An Autodidact Meets A Collaborative Form
July 31st, 2021 · 9 Comments · Movies
. 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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