The 50 best films of the decade so far, part 2
The Dissolve Canon is an occasional feature making bold declarations about the greatest films in various categories, determined via votes by the staff and contributors of The Dissolve.
The 87th Annual Academy Awards will be announced Sunday, February 22, 2015. In preparation for an exciting night of glitz, glamor, fashion, and filmmaking, here are some of the most popular stories about the movies, saved by millions of people to Pocket. Bring out the popcorn!
The Dissolve Canon is an occasional feature making bold declarations about the greatest films in various categories, determined via votes by the staff and contributors of The Dissolve.
The Dissolve Canon is an occasional feature making bold declarations about the greatest films in various categories, determined via votes by the staff and contributors of The Dissolve. The middle of a decade isn’t often a cause for reflection, but maybe it should be.
There are years in which the list fills itself up to the mid-twenties or more. This year, I had to cut it down, arbitrarily, to thirty.
Look hard enough, and you can find any one of this year’s eight Oscar nominees for Best Picture playing in a theater (relatively) near you. But thanks to #snowpocalypse2015, we're gonna guess that Driving (or Walking) Anywhere isn't one of your strong suits right now.
Need a movie recommendation? Try one of the many, many "top 100 films of all time" lists out there. You could look at the IMDB top list, or the AFI list. But if you want to know what various film critics would say, this list has a good claim at being your best bet.
Wes Anderson and I had our third, and longest, Grand Budapest Hotel conversation in February 2014 at the Algonquin Hotel. Our conversation lasted a little more than two hours, starting at a small table in the hotel’s main lobby and continuing at another table in an adjacent bar.
This is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation with an Academy member — who is not associated with any of this year's nominees — about her ballot. A conversation with a different member will post each day leading up to the Oscars ceremony on Feb. 22.
“American Sniper” is probably not going to win the Oscar for best picture. If it does, that would be the single biggest best picture upset at the Academy Awards in at least 25 years.
The Oscars are this weekend, which means the movies up for Best Picture are being examined closer than ever. While Vulture has offered critical and contextual takes on all of them, there is one more way they can be looked at: graphically.
Birdman may be widely perceived as the Oscar frontrunner for best picture, but American Sniper has already destroyed its competition at the box office. Despite being the worst-reviewed Oscar contender (with a 72% on Rotten Tomatoes), the film has earned a whopping $306.
American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, and Peter Morgan, producers Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, and James W. Skotchdopole, producers
Up until the fourth week of January it, seemed as if the race for the best picture Oscar was pretty much over except for the balloting.
In early spring of 2013, Christopher Nolan and his crew were scouting for locations in Iceland – looking for glaciers that could stand in for the icy wastes of a distant planet in Nolan’s new film, Interstellar. They were on foot, the terrain proving inaccessible by car through freezing rain.
James Baldwin's The Devil Finds Work, a book-length essay on race and America and cinema, movingly demonstrates that analysis of art can be art itself. Who's the greatest American movie critic?
When Quentin Tarantino goes to the movies, he sits in the front. Not in the first row, where he’d have to move his head from side to side to see what’s happening in the corners, but the third or fourth row, where he can take in the whole screen and is aware of nothing but the screen.
We can’t remember the last time we watched a movie without consulting Rotten Tomatoes first. The new Ben Affleck flick only scored a 26%? We’re out before the first scene rolls.
Maybe there's no such thing as a perfect movie. It's usually enough of a miracle that a movie gets made. But every once in a while, a movie manages to tell a great story without a brush stroke noticeably out of place. Here are 10 nearly perfect movies, and what they teach us about storytelling.
Every year, the Oscars come along, and it becomes more evident that the Oscars are the worst live event on television. Other award shows are smart enough to jettison technical categories, get the nominees shitfaced, and encourage poor wardrobe choices.
According to Anthony Lane, there are approximately “twenty-one people” who haven’t read Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl.” I’m one of them. This past weekend, when I saw the movie, I liked it so much that I felt sad about missing out on the book when it was published, two years ago.