1957 was the best-ever year for movies (and other surprising insights from IMDb) Big data can answer a lot of big debates … like which episode of “Seinfeld” was the funniest.
(Columbia TriStar Television Photo/Reuters) Want to know which episode of “Seinfeld” was the greatest? Curious which year produced the best films? At one point in time, these types of esoteric queries fell firmly in the realm of bar debates and bickering critics. But thanks to IMDb — that massive compendium of cinematic trivia and ratings — we can at last quantify things like, say, the best move made in 1985. This brilliant and vindicating insight comes courtesy Reddit, where “monoglot,” an enterprising user in the /r/movies forum, parsed tens of thousands of movie reviews to assemble a list of the movies that got the most perfect reviews for every year between 1894 and the present. The highest-rated movies, in this case, aren’t always the most-acclaimed ones. This isn’t the only interesting project to pull from IMDb data in recent weeks.
The Best Films on Netflix (Top 250 listed first) - a list by Slizmo. 50 best sports movies ever. Films you haven't seen and should - a list by jacobmounter. TSPDT - 1,000 Greatest Films (Full List) Canadian Short Films. Empire Features. Sci fi that makes you go hmmm... Life - short film by Artavazd Peleshian. Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning. Life is about a birth, consisting mainly of views of a young woman’s face in the throes of labour, her heaving body in its hospital room seen as a changing landscape.
Two shifts take place: the child is born and the camera shows us this new life; then, in a final shot that re-orders the entire film in retrospect (like the final shot of Pelechian’s earlier portrait of peasant life, The Seasons), we see mother and child, faces side-by-side perhaps a year later, mirrors of one another save for the difference in age. The filmmaker works with his images as if they were a musical score. Around a central theme, he orchestrates variations and modulations that create an impression of a flood of private images arriving from beyond the frame.
Pelechian is making a name for himself as a montage filmmaker who tends to inscribe in his works the movement of the world and history. 12 Early Short Films By Famous Hollywood Directors. By Scott Meslow If last weekend's number one movie, Mama — in which two adopted children are beset by a malevolent creature they call Mama — sounds familiar, it may be because you first encountered the film in its original three-minute short form when it was released in 2008.
(Watch the original short version of Mama below.) EXISTENTIAL FILMS - a list by Dr-Faustus. Empire's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time. 20 Great Documentaries To Watch on Netflix Instant (2012) Last year, we looked at 20 Great Documentaries to Watch on Netflix Instant, but as the movie service is constantly updating its offerings, we decided to update the list with 20 different documentaries that are available now.
A handful of documentaries from last year’s list are still available as well: Restrepo, God Grew Tired of Us, Client 9, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, No End In Sight and No Direction Home. 10. Cave of Forgotten DreamsDirector: Werner Herzog 3-D skeptics might have to rethink their stance after witnessing Werner Herzog’s stunning tour of the oldest cave drawings ever found. —Josh Jackson 9. The 30 Best Films of the Decade. We’re all in that humanistic mode of evaluating our lives – coming up on the end of the year and the last time a zero will be the third digit on our calendars.
We’re all (from Variety to Cat Fancy) also waxing expert on what films were the best of the best of the best of the past ten years. Which is why there is an unnavigable sea of opinion polluting the internet right now. Neil and I thought, ‘If everyone else is doing it, why can’t we? And why not do it better?” You may ask (since I’m forcing you to rhetorically), “How can giving your opinion be better than everyone else’s tepid version of an almost-arbitrary-seeming list?”
I’m glad you asked. Neil and I anticipated this task back in October and began planning what would become far too much work for two people who essentially sit around watching Animal House all day. The Stories Behind Hollywood Studio Logos. You see these opening logos every time you go to the movies, but have you ever wondered who is the boy on the moon in the DreamWorks logo?
Or which mountain inspired the Paramount logo? Or who was the Columbia Torch Lady? Let's find out: 1. The best films of the '00s. My 100 Must-See Movies - a list by taniasalinas8. 10 Certified Fresh Psychological Thrillers. Meek's Cutoff (2010) — The 25 Best Independent Movies Streaming on Netflix Right Now. 10 Foreign Movies Every Guy Should See. We’re not quite sure why, but when we think of foreign movies we immediately think of French romance flicks.
Pass. This is dumb since there are a ton of solid foreign movies for dudes. In fact, if you don’t mind a bit of reading with your movie watching, there are some kickass foreign films you really need to see. Here are 10 to get you started. (Just as a note, we’re leaving off British films & martial arts flicks because there are far too many awesome ones to try and squeeze in.) 1. You’ve probably seen some pretty great American style gang movies, but you’ve never seen a gang movie with the grittiness of City of God. 2.
Some great movies have used prison as the main backdrop for the film (see: Shawshank Redemption), but few have utilized it and taken advantage of it like A Prophet. Watch Free Documentaries Online. 300 Greatest Films. Best Movies (of All-Time) Zeitgeist Films. The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time. Top mind blowing movies you never saw - a list by sasharaskin. Into the White a Stark Tale of Enemy-Friendship Movie Review, Christian Reviews and Ratings. DVD Release Date: June 25, 2013 Theatrical Release Date: April 12, 2013 (limited) & OnDemand Rating: R (for some language, and wartime violence) Genre: WWII drama Run Time: 1 hr., 40 min.
Director: Petter Naess Cast: Florian Lukas, David Kross, Rupert Grint, Stig Henrik Hoff, Lachlan Nieboer What is it that makes fellow inhabitants of Planet Earth enemies with one another? It's an age-old question, one that actually had me harkening back to the 1985 Dennis Quaid-Lou Gossett film Enemy Mine, and one which director Petter Naess (Elling) does absolutely nothing new with in Into the White.
But that doesn't mean the film is without merit or ideas to contemplate. Based on true events, Into the White (titled Cross of Honour in Europe) takes place in late April 1940, at the front end of World War II, in the snowy Norwegian wilderness. The cabin is uninhabited. All the archetypes are present, and they are fun to consider. Last Letter. Download & Streaming : Moving Image Archive : Internet Archive. Anime (/ˈænəˌmeɪ/) (Japanese: アニメ) is a style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in, and commonly associated with, Japan.
The word anime is the Japanese term for animation, which means all forms of animated media. Outside Japan, anime refers specifically to animation from Japan or as a Japanese-disseminated animation style often characterized by colorful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastical themes. The culturally abstract approach to the word's meaning may open... Collections of items recorded from television, including commercials, old television shows, government proceedings, and more. The four-star movies of 2012. 100 Best Comedy Movies - Film. Here's the 100 best comedy movies as chosen by more than 200 people whose job it is to make you laugh.
We spoke to dozens of comedy writers, comedy directors, comic actors and stand-up comedians – including Dan Aykroyd, Richard Curtis, Edgar Wright, Kim Noble, Stephen Merchant, Jo Brand and many, many more – and asked them to share with us their favourite comedy films of all time. Can you guess which film emerged as the number one choice? UPDATE: Tell us the comedy movie you think should have made the list and we'll print the best ten in a future issue of Time Out magazine. Make your suggestions on our messageboards.
By Tom Huddleston, David Jenkins, Adam Lee Davies, Derek Adams, Edward Lawrenson, Wally Hammond, Ben Walters, Gabriel Tate and Phil Harrison. 25 Spectacular Movies You (Probably) Haven’t Seen. Midnight in Paris Woody Allen’s latest places starving writer Owen Wilson in Paris with his fiancée, Rachel McAdams.
Searching for inspiration for his incomplete novel, Owen begins taking strolls around the city at night where he discovers an unexpected group of people. I wish I could be more specific, but it would ruin the surprise.