Growing up I was pretty open to just about every genre of movie I came across. I think I’ve mentioned this one the site before, but I spent a substantial amount of time growing up at my grandparent’s house, and they had a staggering amount of movies […]
Every week here on Cinematic Century I talk to you all about my favorite film from each year. But, today we’re getting to talk about one of my favorite films, period. Not just in the context of 1950. I really and truly love all the movies I’ve […]
Well folks, it’s another week of Cinematic Century and another look into one of the most highly regarded films of all time. Over the course of this project I’m going to be talking about a few movies that frequently get referred to as “greatest films of all […]
Magic! Grudges! Obsession! Teleportation! These things were enough to inspire me to do another Film Library entry, something I haven’t done in way too long. I don’t know where the time went, but I realized recently that I hadn’t done one of these since last Christmas when […]
By this point of my Cinematic Century project I think it’s pretty clear that I have a real affection for the work of Charlie Chaplin. Just about every film that he made has become my favorite film of the year they were released, and he really is […]
You may have noticed a bit of a theme from the last couple weeks of Cinematic Century. I’ve been talking about a lot of black and white crime stories. And you’d better get used that that, because the 1940’s really were a golden age of Film Noir, […]
I’ve mentioned this a whole lot here on the site, but one of my all-time favorite genres of storytelling is noir. It’s a fairly broad genre that generally gets used to describe most types of crime stories, but it’s also one that can become very granular, describing […]
I’ve mentioned this before during the run of this Cinematic Century project, but this whole thing began with me realizing I’d seen a shocking amount of movies from most of the years of the Twentieth Century. I’d found that I’d seen at least one film from 1920 to […]
We live in a world that’s dominated by huge-budget action films, studio tent-poles that are meant to prop up the studio’s entire earnings. Don’t get me wrong, I’m on the record as being a big fan of the Marvel films, Star Wars, and most of the other massive franchises […]
Well, well, well, look what we have here. Despite the fact that by 1936 the talkies had entirely supplanted the silents as the dominant form of cinema, good old Charlie Chaplin was still hanging on. Chaplin was convinced that the talkies were a fad, and remained obstinate […]
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