The random number generator I’m letting run this whole project seems to be giving us alternating weeks between movies I’ve seen before and loved, and ones I’m seeing for the first time. So, after getting to experience A Matter of Life and Death for the first time last week […]
We’re in the home stretch of Cinematic Century here, folks. Only a handful of weeks left, and we’ve now reached a very odd little period of time, when this site was up and running and I was even making my favorite films of the year lists. Which means […]
Some weeks it’s incredibly hard to pick a movie to highlight as my favorite of the year, most often because there happens to be too many movies I love from that year. But, other times I find myself having no struggle at all. Such as this week. […]
The entire point of this Cinematic Century project was to talk about movies that I normally wouldn’t get to discuss on the site. So often I got swept up with new releases and didn’t have time to talk about the movies that served as the foundation of […]
We’ve made it into another decade here on Cinematic Century, and what better way to start the 1990’s off than with a slow moving crime drama! We went from the sheer excess of Tim Burton’s Batman last week to our very first trip into the weird world of the […]
We live in a very strange time for blockbuster cinema. For whatever reason it has become both culturally popular and financially successful to mine what used to be known as nerd culture for the next big hit. And, it works. I mean, we seem to be living […]
Every week here at Cinematic Century I talk about movies that I love. The whole idea was to find my favorite movie of each year, and geek out about it. But, it’s always something special when I get to talk about not only my favorite film of […]
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned through my experiences reading the novels of Jonathan Lethem, it’s that I’m probably not going to get the book I thought I was getting. Which, has been positive and negative. This is the fourth of Lethem’s novels that I’ve […]
Earlier in this project I discussed a film that often gets saddled with the occasionally problematic title of “greatest film of all time.” Citizen Kane has been the go to pick for this title for decades, getting everything that comes along with that title, both good and bad. […]
Over the course of this project I’m going to have to make some tough decisions. Occasionally we’re going to have years that were absolutely firing on all cylinders, giving us a staggering amount of films that I could easily consider my favorite films. Usually I have a […]
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