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
Best Movies Watched in 2025
December 11th, 2025 · 5 Comments · Movies
Best Movies Watched in 2025 . Since people seem to love year-end lists — from critics’ picks to people’s own music streaming results — Sky suggested I make one for the best movies I watched this year. Never did one of these before, but thought I could share some highlights that might lead some to […]
Tags: Arthur Miller·Benicio Del Toro·Brad Pitt·Dustin Hoffman·Edgar Wright·Gabriel LaBelle·James Mangold·Jason Reitman·Jerry Garcia·Jonah Hill·Leonardo DiCaprio·Martin Scorsese·Martin Sheen·Paul Thomas Anderson·Penny Marshall·Philip Seymour Hoffman·Robert Altman·Robert Redford·Spike Jonze·The Grateful Dead·Timothée Chalamet·Tom Hanks
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 […]
Tags: Alfred Hitchcock·autodidact film studies·Beat The Devil·diegetic music·Elia Kazan·Gene Saks·John Huston·Milos Foreman·Paul Mazursky·Peter Bogdanovich·Quentin Tarantino·Richard Brooks·Robert Altman·Route 66·The Defiant Ones·The Last Picture Show·The Naked City·Two-Lane Blacktop·Walter Salles·Woody Allen