9 Best Articles in 2021
The New York Times
Martin Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren’t Cinema. Let Me Explain.
The New York Times
7 min read · 2019-11-05 · Cinema is an art form that brings you the unexpected. In superhero movies, nothing is at risk, a director says.
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Cinema Seat Preview Experiment
Codrops
3 min read · From 2016 · An experimental demo where a 3D perspective preview is shown for a selected seat in a cinema room.
Harper's Magazine
[Essay] Il Maestro, By Martin Scorsese
Harper's Magazine
~18 min read · Feb 16th · Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema
bbc.com
The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films
bbc.com
8 min read · From 2016 · The best that cinema has had to offer since 2000 as picked by 177 film critics from around the world.
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Jean-Marc Denis - Black
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1 min read · From 2016 · Black is a wallpaper series using shapes and lights. High resolution rendered using Cinema 4D, for your phone and desktop.
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Gentle Cinema
letterboxd.com
5 min read · Apr 1st · Pleasant people doing pleasant things and there's not much drama and you just kind of feel lovely about the world. I got a lot of recommendations for films, most of which seemed to not have pleasant…
The Ringer
The 25 Best Movies of 2020 (So Far)
The Ringer
~17 min read · 2020-06-30 · In a year in which cinema has been seemingly shut down, there has still been plenty of great work to see—if you know where to look
The New Yorker
A Look at Wes Anderson’s New, New Yorker-Inspired Film
The New Yorker
2 min read · 2020-02-11 · The director’s latest movie, “The French Dispatch,” is about a made-up weekly magazine that looks awfully familiar.
BBC Future
Why meeting another’s gaze is so powerful
BBC Future
8 min read · From 2019 · The reaction when two people lock eyes in a crowded room is a staple of romantic cinema. But the complex, unconscious reactions that take place are anything but make believe.
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Gentle Cinema
letterboxd.com
5 min read · Apr 1st · Pleasant people doing pleasant things and there's not much drama and you just kind of feel lovely about the world. I got a lot of recommendations for films, most of which seemed to not have pleasant…
The New Yorker
Paul Schrader on Making and Watching Movies in the Age of Netflix
The New Yorker
6 min read · Apr 23rd · The screenwriter and director discusses the future of cinema and the transformation of audiences.
The Hollywood Reporter
Theaters Promote First-Ever Cinema Week to Encourage Moviegoing (Exclusive)
The Hollywood Reporter
1 min read · Apr 20th · A broad coalition of theater owners are staging Cinema Week, a six-day event in June designed to re-energize moviegoing as the film business emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of cinemas…
Vulture
A Year of Watching Movies About Being Stuck at Home (While Being Stuck at Home)
Vulture
10 min read · Mar 17th · COVID cinema arrived not long after the virus did — but what do we want from movies about a pandemic we’re all still experiencing?
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The Guardian
The borrowers: why Finland's cities are havens for library lovers
The Guardian
8 min read · From 2018 · Helsinki’s state-of-the-art Oodi library will stand opposite parliament and boast a cinema, recording studio and makerspace. It’s a perfect fit for a literate nation taking public learning to the next level
The New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2018
The New Yorker
10 min read · From 2018 · The gap between what’s good and what’s widely available in theatres—between the cinema of resistance and the cinema of consensus—is wider than ever.
BBC Future
Why meeting another’s gaze is so powerful
BBC Future
6 min read · 2020-01-28 · The reaction when two people lock eyes in a crowded room is a staple of romantic cinema. But the complex, unconscious reactions that take place are anything but make believe.
BBC News (World)
The 100 greatest foreign-language films
BBC News (World)
8 min read · From 2018 · BBC Culture polled 209 critics in 43 countries to find the best in world cinema – here’s the top 100.
Guardian Books
A novel idea: is the book always better than the film?
Guardian Books
2 min read · 2020-12-07 · It’s a cliche as old as cinema itself. But dismissing film-making as the weak sibling of the arts is often rooted in snobbery
M.G. Siegler
The Truly Viral Movie is Here
M.G. Siegler
4 min read · From 2019 · ‘Bird Box’ and Netflix’s reduction of fiction friction
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Shot on iPhone by Academy Award® Winner Damien Chazelle
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2020-08-06 · A journey through cinema history is reimagined for the vertical screen in Damien Chazelle’s “The Stunt Double,” a short film Shot on iPhone 11 Pro. Watch as ...
hedgehogreview.com
The Cinema of Inadvertence, or Why I Like Bad Movies
hedgehogreview.com
20+ min read · 2019-11-08 · We bad-movie watchers have our own anticriteria, the sorts of badness we prefer.
BBC News (World)
Netflix boss: Film fans want joint release dates for cinema and streaming
BBC News (World)
3 min read · Mar 3rd · Netflix boss' claims about the theatrical release window denied by UK Cinema Association chief.
