Here is the recommended reading order of the articles on the blog as well as the movies that should be watched before reading each post, as they are referenced. There are four ways you can read through this blog:
1. Watch all the cited movies in chronological order and then read all the articles.
2. Watch all the movies cited under each article and then read the articles as listed below.
3. Check out most cited movies and watch the most relevant ones before or as you read along.
4. Just be lazy and read all the articles and miss out a little on the references.
Movie reviews, books, roundtable and top 50 are a different deal and can be read separately.
Defining Extremes: The Modern Chasm of Film Appreciation
The Matrix
The Mirror
Collateral Damage
A Man Escaped
Casino
The Vertical Ray of the Sun
The Mexican
Rosetta
The Problem of the American Moviegoer
It's a Wonderful Life
Lawrence of Arabia
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
The State of Mainstream Film Criticism
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Fade to Black
Schindler's List
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Award Shows: The Great Promoters of Phillistinism
Breathless
Avatar
The Blind Side
The Reader
2001: A Space Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
Oliver!
Funny Girl
Rachel, Rachel
The Lion in Winter
Detour
Twilight
The Geek Problem
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Castle in the Sky
Mission Statement
Up in the Air
The 400 Blows
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Citizen Kane
L'Atalante
Cultivated Interest: Its Demands and Necessity
The Necessity of "Experts"
Battleship Potemkin
The Rules of the Game
The Bicycle Thief
Rashomon
Seven Samurai
Pather Panchali
The List Mentality
Is There Such a Thing as a Must-See Movie?
The Gold Rush
Casablanca
The Criterion Challenge (any disciplined person can be a film buff/ connoisseur in two years)
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Umberto D
Tokyo Story
Diary of a Country Priest
The Criterion Consumerism
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Tout va bien
Three Main Themes of Human Experience
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
She's Out of My League
Thelma and Louise
Is It a Film or a Movie?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Why the Movie Theater is Better than Home Video
An Artist and His Audience
Into Great Silence
Should Every Movie have a Happy Ending?
The Robe
Fantastic Mr. Fox and the Ideal Children's Movie
Hugo and the Failure of 3-D Movies
Hugo
The Searchers
Popcorn Cinema and the Myth of the Guilty Pleasure
Dumb and Dumber
Singin' in the Rain
National Treasure
Overexposure and the Failure of Escapism
The Notebook
Skyline
Blockbusters Do Not Rest Our Brains
Hollywood Fails Romance
Rope
Black Hawk Down
On the Waterfront
Missing the Point of a Movie While Searching for It
Based on a True Story: Why I don't Care!
Rudy
Miracle
Rocky
Secretariat
The Last Samurai and the Mighty Whitey
The Last Samurai
Never Forget. You're Reminded.
The Sorrow and the Pity
Holocaust
Life is Beautiful
The Pianist
A Secret
One Day You'll Understand
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Adam Resurrected
Defiance
Soviet Montage Theory
October
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Mother
Strike
Apocalypse Now
The Long Take Part I: The Tracking Shot
Touch of Evil
Swing Time
Russian Ark
The Long Take Part II: The Static Shot with Movement
The Long Take Part III: The Static Shot Without Movement
Ideas on Artistic Innocence in Film
The Integrated Artist
Long Take, Continuity Editing and Realism
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Art Imitating Life: Contemplation and Cinema
Un Chien Andalou (view)
Narrative and Truth
Remakes References and Homages: The Slow Death of Creativity
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1976)
King Kong (2005)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Genre, Familiarity and Originality
Sholay
Creating a Cinematic Universe
Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars and the Creation of a Universe
Groundbreaking Post on the Idea of Groundbreaking
The Birth of a Nation
The Jazz Singer
Becky Sharp
Tron
A Defense of the Aesthetics of Silent Film
Metropolis
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Silent Movie
Cinema Over Literature: The Ultimate Medium
Overview of Christ-types in Storytelling
Braveheart
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Superman Returns
5 Reasons to Kill Christian Music
Short Film: Origins of the Motion Picture
Why Film Class in High School Wouldn't Work
Convergence at Zero: The Pitfalls of Multimedia
Wednesday's Notes on Friday
Theory on the Apparatus of Television and the Destruction of Our Relational Faculties
"Prom": Possibly the Worst Sexist Commercial of the 2013 Super Bowl
The Rise of Persona in Music
Jailhouse Rock
Boyz n the Hood
Video Games are Art
On Painting and Photography
Notes on The Death and Life of Saint Faustina
Sister Act
Short Film: And the Darwin Award Goes To...
Short Film: Pondering the Existence of God
Short Film: Business Executive Council November 1, 2012
Short Film: The DriveCam Story- Brandon Nixon
Short Film: iContact
Snow Men
1. Watch all the cited movies in chronological order and then read all the articles.
2. Watch all the movies cited under each article and then read the articles as listed below.
3. Check out most cited movies and watch the most relevant ones before or as you read along.
4. Just be lazy and read all the articles and miss out a little on the references.
Movie reviews, books, roundtable and top 50 are a different deal and can be read separately.
Defining Extremes: The Modern Chasm of Film Appreciation
The Matrix
The Mirror
Collateral Damage
A Man Escaped
Casino
The Vertical Ray of the Sun
The Mexican
Rosetta
The Problem of the American Moviegoer
It's a Wonderful Life
Lawrence of Arabia
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
The State of Mainstream Film Criticism
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Fade to Black
Schindler's List
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Award Shows: The Great Promoters of Phillistinism
Breathless
Avatar
The Blind Side
The Reader
2001: A Space Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
Oliver!
Funny Girl
Rachel, Rachel
The Lion in Winter
Detour
Twilight
The Geek Problem
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Castle in the Sky
Mission Statement
Up in the Air
The 400 Blows
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Citizen Kane
L'Atalante
Cultivated Interest: Its Demands and Necessity
The Necessity of "Experts"
Battleship Potemkin
The Rules of the Game
The Bicycle Thief
Rashomon
Seven Samurai
Pather Panchali
The List Mentality
Is There Such a Thing as a Must-See Movie?
The Gold Rush
Casablanca
The Criterion Challenge (any disciplined person can be a film buff/ connoisseur in two years)
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Umberto D
Tokyo Story
Diary of a Country Priest
The Criterion Consumerism
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Tout va bien
Three Main Themes of Human Experience
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
She's Out of My League
Thelma and Louise
Is It a Film or a Movie?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Why the Movie Theater is Better than Home Video
An Artist and His Audience
Into Great Silence
Should Every Movie have a Happy Ending?
The Robe
Fantastic Mr. Fox and the Ideal Children's Movie
Hugo and the Failure of 3-D Movies
Hugo
The Searchers
Popcorn Cinema and the Myth of the Guilty Pleasure
Dumb and Dumber
Singin' in the Rain
National Treasure
Overexposure and the Failure of Escapism
The Notebook
Skyline
Blockbusters Do Not Rest Our Brains
Hollywood Fails Romance
Rope
Black Hawk Down
On the Waterfront
Missing the Point of a Movie While Searching for It
Based on a True Story: Why I don't Care!
Rudy
Miracle
Rocky
Secretariat
The Last Samurai and the Mighty Whitey
The Last Samurai
Never Forget. You're Reminded.
The Sorrow and the Pity
Holocaust
Life is Beautiful
The Pianist
A Secret
One Day You'll Understand
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Adam Resurrected
Defiance
Soviet Montage Theory
October
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Mother
Strike
Apocalypse Now
The Long Take Part I: The Tracking Shot
Touch of Evil
Swing Time
Russian Ark
The Long Take Part II: The Static Shot with Movement
The Long Take Part III: The Static Shot Without Movement
Ideas on Artistic Innocence in Film
The Integrated Artist
Long Take, Continuity Editing and Realism
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Art Imitating Life: Contemplation and Cinema
Un Chien Andalou (view)
Narrative and Truth
Remakes References and Homages: The Slow Death of Creativity
King Kong (1933)
King Kong (1976)
King Kong (2005)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Genre, Familiarity and Originality
Sholay
Creating a Cinematic Universe
Star Wars: Episode I- The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode V- The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars and the Creation of a Universe
Groundbreaking Post on the Idea of Groundbreaking
The Birth of a Nation
The Jazz Singer
Becky Sharp
Tron
A Defense of the Aesthetics of Silent Film
Metropolis
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Silent Movie
Cinema Over Literature: The Ultimate Medium
Overview of Christ-types in Storytelling
Braveheart
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
Superman Returns
5 Reasons to Kill Christian Music
Short Film: Origins of the Motion Picture
Why Film Class in High School Wouldn't Work
Convergence at Zero: The Pitfalls of Multimedia
Wednesday's Notes on Friday
Theory on the Apparatus of Television and the Destruction of Our Relational Faculties
"Prom": Possibly the Worst Sexist Commercial of the 2013 Super Bowl
The Rise of Persona in Music
Jailhouse Rock
Boyz n the Hood
Video Games are Art
On Painting and Photography
Notes on The Death and Life of Saint Faustina
Sister Act
Short Film: And the Darwin Award Goes To...
Short Film: Pondering the Existence of God
Short Film: Business Executive Council November 1, 2012
Short Film: The DriveCam Story- Brandon Nixon
Short Film: iContact
Snow Men
