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November 30, 2023

Top 8 Fluke Masterpiece Directors

What’s a fluke masterpiece director? It’s someone who has made just one stone-cold classic in a relatively long career.

November 27, 2023

11 Directors Who’ve Never Made a Bad Film

Discover 11 extraordinary directors who’ve never made a bad film, showcasing consistent cinematic brilliance and defying industry norms.

November 19, 2023

Why Did Martin Scorsese’s Early Movies Garner Mixed Receptions?

It’s quite rare for a great director to be wholly appreciated in their time. Think about Stanley Kubrick, who never won an Academy Award. Think about Alfred Hitchcock. Martin Scorsese was much like these directors, generally considered a master of the form but never getting universal critical reception, until recently at least. It wasn’t Raging…

October 21, 2023

Three Films by Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov has been a major Russian cinema figure since the 1960s. Let’s celebrate his work by watching his best soviet films, like Burnt by the Sun.

October 15, 2023

Dariush Mehrjui, Pillar of the Iranian New Wave, Tragically Passes Aged 83

Dariush Mehrjui: Beacon of Iranian Cinema & Tragic Loss – A Tribute to the Master of the Iranian New Wave

October 7, 2023

Terence Davies (1945 – 2023)

Terence Davies has passed at age 77. The director of The Long Day Closes and Distant Voices, Still Lives will live long in the memory as one of Britain’s great auteurs.

October 2, 2023

Director’s Birthdays October First Week

Here’s something slightly new. Let’s celebrate the director’s birthdays in the upcoming week. I’d like to continue with this for a year, but you never know where things will take you. Perhaps we should try to compare directors, I tried to do a comparison-similarities-differences thing with McCarey and Villeneuve, but it became kind of impossible.…

September 27, 2023