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What is Great Cinema?: Top 50
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Yes, I have come up with a top 50 list of favorite movies, despite my disdain for lists. Or links to other people's work. Are normally brought up as conventional examples of specific ideas and thus a mixed bag in terms of overall quality. How did I come up with this list? Comparisons. The list is now a secret list on imdb.com. I do intend to re-watch and re-rank some of my choices. I've just taken the top fifty choices for here bec...
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What is Great Cinema?: Books
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Here is a list of all books referenced on this blog. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Bible: New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha. Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul. The Diary of a Country Priest. The Intellectual Life: It's Spirit, Methods, Conditions. The Interpretation of Dreams. The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. The Story of Art.
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What is Great Cinema?: Christianity is Cinematic
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Sunday, June 28, 2015. I intend to point out reasons for this that even a secular person can mostly relate to. Many of literary and film history's most common tropes and themes are Biblical. This includes all the different types of Christ-figure. Other common tropes include David and Goliath. Attempting to control the Divine. And evil sacrifices to idols. Drama is about high stakes. This is why many movies are built around life and...
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What is Great Cinema?: Movie Review: The Notebook
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Wednesday, October 8, 2014. Movie Review: The Notebook. Many people would consider this movie a "chick flick." I dislike that classification in general. What does it mean? Few people can define it, but they know it when they see it. To my knowledge, it means a romance or romatic comedy that isn't good. I've been told that Casablanca. This movie has little to no substance. It has the main problems common to romace movies. The Long Take ...
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What is Great Cinema?: Why Do American Christian Movie Audiences have Bad Taste?
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Saturday, August 8, 2015. Why Do American Christian Movie Audiences have Bad Taste? I've written before on the trouble with "Christian movies". Much of what comes out of America's Christian film industry is terrible. For an example of what I am talking about, see my review. Of Facing the Giants. Why do Christian audiences have such bad taste in movies? This is a complex question with at least a few answers that will be outlined here.
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What is Great Cinema?: Movie Review: Facing the Giants
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Movie Review: Facing the Giants. I've already written an article on so-called Christian movies. Movies which of course don't represent all Christians, Christian filmmakers or Christian movies. This seems like the sort of movie that people either think is terrible or "THE BEST MOVIE EVER." I partially respect. Now on to the writing. What can I say about this movie that isn't on the surface? Much too neatly wrapp...
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What is Great Cinema?: Hollywood and Diversity
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Friday, February 6, 2015. The acting field is not a meritocracy of talent, but actor's are judged on all sorts of things that have nothing to do with talent. I am against affirmative action! Affirmative action also dumbs down standards and punishes people for their ethnicity and not even just white people. Is this because women and minorities are bad actors or are not trying very hard to break into the industry? View my complete profile.
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What is Great Cinema?: Movie Review: Black Hawk Down
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Movie Review: Black Hawk Down. Here is an interesting review. Of Black Hawk Down. By film critic Andrew Sarris. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Diego, California, United States. View my complete profile. On Ritual and Spontaneity. Impacting the Culture Blog. Sight and Sound Magazine. Art: It's Consumption and Creation. Defining Extremes: The Modern Chasm of Film Appreciation. The Movies on This Blog.
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What is Great Cinema?: Art: It's Consumption and Creation
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What is Great Cinema? Blog on Film Theory and General Topics in Film. Saturday, May 17, 2014. Art: It's Consumption and Creation. For those who view it? Art is first and foremost experiential and existential, not intellectual. It is intuitive and emotional. We are moved by beauty. Intellectual deconstruction is, at most, secondary. If you are deconstructing a movie as you watch it, the movie is either much too obvious, postmodern (obvious on purpose), really terrible, or you are a nerd. Mostly European, ...
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