Tag: Filmmaking (Page 4)
1990s
2010sSeven Psychopaths (2012)
McDonagh's 2012 Hollywood meta-comedy. Farrell, Rockwell, Walken, Harrelson.
1920sMan with a Movie Camera (1929)
Vertov's 1929 Soviet city-symphony documentary. The film that invented half the techniques modern documentary takes for granted.
1950sSingin’ in the Rain (1952)
Donen and Kelly's 1952 musical comedy about the talkie transition. Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds.
1950sSunset Boulevard (1950)
Wilder's 1950 Hollywood gothic. Sunset Boulevard is the Billy Wilder film noir that became Hollywood's most lacerating film about itself.
2010sNightcrawler (2014)
Dan Gilroy's 2014 LA satire. Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, freelance crime videographer.
1950sHemo the Magnificent (1957)
Frank Capra's 1957 Bell Labs educational film mixing live action and animation. Dr. Frank Baxter and a cartoon Hemo teach kids how blood works.
1990sL.A. Confidential (1997)
Curtis Hanson's 1997 neo-noir on 1950s LAPD corruption. The rare adult crime film that respects its audience.
1990s
2010sGhostbusters (2016)
The script came from Feig and Katie Dippold. Kristen Wiig plays Erin Gilbert, a Columbia physics professor.
1990sGettysburg (1993)
Gettysburg is four hours and fourteen minutes of Civil War battle filmmaking and it earns every minute. Tom Berenger plays James Longstreet.

