Last week I got to discuss a very important year in American cinema. One that gave me quite a few options to talk about, including some very “important” movies. And I perhaps threw a bit of a curve ball by talking about a silly farce instead. And, weirdly, […]
Picking the films the feature on this Cinematic Century project can sometimes be incredibly hard. Because every now and then I come across a year that ended up producing a whole bunch of beloved movies that could easily take the top spot for any other year. I’ve […]
Occasionally during this Cinematic Century project I’ve built for myself I’ve been forced to make some pretty difficult decisions. I’m only letting myself pick one film as my favorite of each year, which has often led to some incredibly tough calls, picking between a slew of truly […]
Doing this Cinematic Century project has really given me an appreciation for the strange ebbs and flows of cinema. Some years we’re given an absolute deluge of fantastic films that I would love to write about, creating a battle royale for which one is going to get […]
I, completely unintentionally, seem to have created a mini-marathon lately here on Cinematic Century revolving around the Cold War. I guess by this period in time, the early sixties, the paranoia and stress of the Cold War had finally percolated in the American subconscious enough that […]
Note: This article more or less ran last year in my Bondathon project, because it seemed ridiculous to write a similarly structured article about the same movie twice. So far during the run of this Cinematic Century project I’ve encountered a few movies that I’d already […]
Looking ahead at the coming years of the Cinematic Century project I’m both pleased and stressed out to see that I have some incredibly difficult decisions in my future. Yeah, there’ll be a couple of years with really clear-cut winners, but it seems like I’m entering a […]
The history of film is a fascinating thing. This project has really given me an appreciation for the odd ebb and flow of film, and the strange fact that some years seem absolutely overflowing with amazing stories, while others are a little dire. The last few weeks […]
Well folks, it’s time for another installment of Cinematic Century, and another brutal grudge match between two of my favorite directors of all time. It’s absolutely mind-blowing that both 1959 and 1960 would feature films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder, let alone having those four […]
Folks, when I first set out on this ridiculous journey to chronicle my favorite films of the last hundred years, there were certain trends that shocked me. And, the thing that perhaps shocked me the most was the fact that the late fifties were absolutely fantastic. I […]
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