Crime Films Part 3 – The Excellent
The third tier of the crime ranking. Scorsese, Lumet, Fincher and Tarantino, plus the documentary that changed a verdict and the westerns that relocated to cities.
CrimeThe third tier of the crime ranking. Scorsese, Lumet, Fincher and Tarantino, plus the documentary that changed a verdict and the westerns that relocated to cities.
CrimeThe fourth tier of the crime ranking. Soderbergh, Scorsese, De Palma and Ferrara, plus the pre-Code gangster pictures and the television that outgrew the form.
CrimeThe fifth tier of the crime ranking. Ritchie, Cronenberg, Affleck and the Coens, plus the heist pictures that turned real cases into features.
CrimeThe sixth tier of the crime ranking. The eighties star vehicles, the police procedurals that found a neighborhood, and the television that outlasted its own format.
CrimeThe bottom of the crime ranking. The adaptations that softened their source, the exploitation cycle at its least defensible, and the films that needed somebody to say no.
Fiction WritingThe third tier of the horror ranking. Craven, Peele, Eggers, Aster and Wright, plus the found-footage and folk horror that reset the form.
Fiction WritingThe fifth tier of the horror ranking. Cameron, Romero, Miike, Coppola and Carpenter, plus the vampire cycle of the late eighties.
Fiction WritingThe sixth tier of the horror ranking. Park, Glazer, Kent, Eggers and Wan, plus the vampire films that rebuilt the rules from scratch.
Fiction WritingThe seventh tier of the horror ranking. Carpenter, Fulci, Romero and Wan, plus the vampire films that treated hunting as a trade.
Fiction WritingThe eighth tier of the horror ranking. The Hammer and seventies vampire cycle, plus the films that took the premise somewhere domestic.
Fiction WritingThe ninth and final tier of the horror ranking. What went wrong, and what each failure teaches about structure, character and nerve.
Fiction WritingThe seventh tier of the science fiction ranking. Kubrick, Spielberg, Nolan and Niccol, plus the films whose best idea arrived and was never used again.
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