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Nov 20, 2020 · Reviews. The Twentieth Century. Matt Fagerholm November 20, 2020. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. One of the few silver linings amidst this year of lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been the opportunity for extensive self-reflection.
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- Man with a Movie Camera (1929) dir. Dziga Vertov. An exercise in technical experimentation, Man with a Movie Camera is the pioneering, not to mention most lauded, of Vertov’s filmic polemics: espousing not only a new, necessary way of life, but a means of living that is created through cinema.
- A Propos de Nice (1930) dir. Jean Vigo. Shot by Boris Kaufman, brother of Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera), A Propos de Nice is a satirical portrait of life in 1920’s Nice.
- 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard. In a year of 3 Godard diatribes against neo-capitalism, 2 or 3 Thing I Know About Her is the most contemplative; if La Chinoise a document of the soon to be riotous students, 2 or 3 is the suburban families watching the events unfold on their television screens.
- Walden; Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1969) dir. Jonas Mekas. Walden is the film in its most diaristic form. Essentially a suitably handsome extended home video, Mekas’s film, shot from 1964-1969, features a series of chronologically edited video diaries that span from eating Chinese food with John Lennon, footage from the Velvet Underground’s first performance, or just the filmmaker eating a croissant in Marseille.
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- 7 Two Or Three Things I Know About Her
- 6 F For Fake
- 5 News from Home
- 4 as I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
- 3 Sans Soleil
- 2 Blue
- 1 Man with A Movie Camera
The 14-minute short A Corner in Wheat (1909) is considered by many to be the world's earliest essay film. Directed by filmmaking pioneer D. W. Griffith, this shot follows a ruthless tycoon who wants to control the wheat market. A powerful portrayal of capitalistic greed, A Corner in Wheatis a bold commentary on the contrast between the wealthy spec...
Described by MUBI as "a landmark transition from the maestro’s jazzy genre deconstructions of the 60s to his gorgeous and inquisitive essay films of the future" (such as Histoire(s) du cinéma, Goodbye to Language, The Image Book), 1967's Two or Three Things I Know About Heris Jean-Luc Godard’s collage of modern life. Related: The Best Jean-Luc Goda...
Orson Welles’ 1973 essay film F for Fake focuses on three hoaxers, the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory who had a talent for copying styles of noted painters; his biographer Clifford Irving whose fake "authorized biography" of Howard Hughes was one of the biggest literary scandals of the 20th century; and Welles himself with his famous War of the...
An unforgettable time capsule of New York in the 1970s, News from Home features Belgian film director Chantal Akerman reading melancholic, sometimes passive-aggressive letters from her mother over beautiful shots of New York, where Akerman relocated at the age of 21. Released in 1976, after the filmmaker’s breakthrough drama Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai...
Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American avant-garde cinema, made one of the most personal, but at the same time one of the most universal films ever. It is his 2000 experimental documentary As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty. Compiled from Mekas' home movies from 1970-1999, this nearly five-hour essay film shows the lo...
Directed by Chris Marker, king of the essay film, 1983’s Sans Soleil (Sunless) follows an unseen cameraman named Sandor Krasna, Marker's alter ego, who journeys from Africa to Japan, "two extreme poles of survival." The 100-minute poetical collage of Marker’s original documentary footage, clips from films and television, sequences from other filmma...
Made when the filmmaker, Derek Jarman, was dying from AIDS-related complications that rendered him partially blind and capable only of experiencing shades of blue, the great experimental film Blue from 1993 is like no other. Jarman’s 79-minute final feature consists of a single shot of one color — International Klein Blue. Against a blank blue scre...
Dziga Vertov, one of cinema’s greatest innovators, believed that the "eye" of the camera captures life better than the subjective eye of a human. In the 1920s, he started looking for cinematic truth, showing life outside the field of human vision through a mix of rhythmic editing, multiple exposures, experimental camera angles, backward sequences, ...
Jan 19, 2023 · On the brink of a new century, a high schooler finds love by accident. The premise of 20th Century Girl is this: Na Bo-ra is seventeen and loyal to her best friend, Yeon-du. However, Yeon-du is leaving for the United States soon, as she needs a specific kind of surgery for her heart.
film industry. Canonized novels of the 19th century were repeatedly adapted for the screen due to the unprotected subject matter. Kellman states that the movie started to precede the book only later in film history, when cinema became the dominant cultural medium, by gaining influ-ence, respectability, and aesthetic sophistication.
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Dec 30, 1999 · Roger Ebert. 10 most influential films of the century. Roger Ebert December 30, 1999. Tweet. The motion picture was invented before 1900, but "the movies" as we know them are entirely a 20th century phenomenon, shaping our times and sharing these 100 years with us.
Oct 23, 2022 · by Dramaddictally. Netflix’s new young love romance 20th Century Girl is both a bubbly smile-fest and a bittersweet take on growing up. It captures the exhilaration and longing of youth, as well as the high emotions that accompany everything from friendships to first loves.
