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 movies cited under each article and then read the articles as listed below.
2. Watch all the cited movies in chronological order and then read all the articles.
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 at any point.
Art: It's Consumption and Creation
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope
Into Great Silence
The Birth of a Nation
Fantastic Mr. Fox
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
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
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1. Watch all the movies cited under each article and then read the articles as listed below.
2. Watch all the cited movies in chronological order and then read all the articles.
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 at any point.
Art: It's Consumption and Creation
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope
Into Great Silence
The Birth of a Nation
Fantastic Mr. Fox
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
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
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Superman Returns
Castle in the Sky
Mission Statement
Up in the Air
The 400 Blows
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Citizen Kane
L'Atalante
The Movies on this Blog
Facing the Giants
The Bicycle Thief
Cultivated Interest: Its Demands and Necessity
The Necessity of "Experts"
Tokyo Story
The Rules of the Game
The Searchers
Man with a Movie Camera
The Passion of Joan of Arc
8 1/2
Battleship Potemkin
Cultivated Interest: Its Existence
The List Mentality
Is There Such a Thing as a Must-See Movie?
The Gold Rush
Casablanca
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap
Un Chien Andalou
The Criterion Challenge (any disciplined person can be a film buff/ connoisseur in two years)
Seven Samurai
Alexander Nevsky
Umberto D
The Criterion Consumerism
Tout va bien
A Start at Fixing the Film Industry as a Consumer
Three Main Themes of Human Experience
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Diary of a Country Priest
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
Army Dog
An Artist and His Audience
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
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
Celebrities and Platform
Holocaust
Harvey Weinstein and metoo
Hollywood and Diversity
The Last Samurai and the Mighty Whitey
The Last Samurai
Able-bodied People Playing Disabled People is Not the Same as Blackface
The Jazz Singer
Never Forget. You're Reminded.
The Sorrow and the Pity
Life is Beautiful
The Pianist
A Secret
One Day You'll Understand
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Adam Resurrected
Defiance
The Merits of Bollywood Cinema
Pather Panchali
Swing Time
Mother India
Pyaasa
Sholay
Amar Akbar Anthony
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
Russian Ark
The Long Take Part II: The Static Shot with Movement
The Long Take Part III: The Static Shot Without Movement
Frame Stories and Flashbacks: The Pros and Cons
Gandhi
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Who is the Most Important Creative Force in a Movie?
It Doesn't Matter If a Critic Couldn't Do Better
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
Two Basic Falsehoods of Classical Narrative
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
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
Becky Sharp
Tron
A Defense of the Aesthetics of Silent Film
Metropolis
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Silent Movie
Castle in the Sky
Mission Statement
Up in the Air
The 400 Blows
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Citizen Kane
L'Atalante
The Movies on this Blog
Facing the Giants
The Bicycle Thief
Cultivated Interest: Its Demands and Necessity
The Necessity of "Experts"
Tokyo Story
The Rules of the Game
The Searchers
Man with a Movie Camera
The Passion of Joan of Arc
8 1/2
Battleship Potemkin
Cultivated Interest: Its Existence
The List Mentality
Is There Such a Thing as a Must-See Movie?
The Gold Rush
Casablanca
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap
Un Chien Andalou
The Criterion Challenge (any disciplined person can be a film buff/ connoisseur in two years)
Seven Samurai
Alexander Nevsky
Umberto D
The Criterion Consumerism
Tout va bien
A Start at Fixing the Film Industry as a Consumer
Three Main Themes of Human Experience
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Diary of a Country Priest
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
Army Dog
An Artist and His Audience
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
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
Celebrities and Platform
Holocaust
Harvey Weinstein and metoo
Hollywood and Diversity
The Last Samurai and the Mighty Whitey
The Last Samurai
Able-bodied People Playing Disabled People is Not the Same as Blackface
The Jazz Singer
Never Forget. You're Reminded.
The Sorrow and the Pity
Life is Beautiful
The Pianist
A Secret
One Day You'll Understand
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Adam Resurrected
Defiance
The Merits of Bollywood Cinema
Pather Panchali
Swing Time
Mother India
Pyaasa
Sholay
Amar Akbar Anthony
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
Russian Ark
The Long Take Part II: The Static Shot with Movement
The Long Take Part III: The Static Shot Without Movement
Frame Stories and Flashbacks: The Pros and Cons
Gandhi
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Who is the Most Important Creative Force in a Movie?
It Doesn't Matter If a Critic Couldn't Do Better
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
Two Basic Falsehoods of Classical Narrative
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
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
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
Christianity is Cinematic
Overview of Christ-types in Storytelling
Braveheart
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
5 Reasons to Kill Christian Music
The Trouble with "Christian Movies"
Left Behind (2014)
Five Approaches to Defining a Christian Movie
Does God Care about Aesthetics?
Why do American Christian Movie Audiences have Bad Taste?
Is a Christian Film Industry Actually Necessary?
Why Christians Should Care about Foreign-Language Movies
Does Christianity Really Need Celebrities?
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
Film is Still Better than Television
Maria Mercedes
Theory on the Apparatus of Television and the Destruction of Our Relational Faculties
Some Brief Thoughts on Studio Wrestling
"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
Observations on Super Mario Maker
On Painting and Photography
Some Observations on Modern Art
Internet Pet Peeves
Notes on The Death and Life of Saint Faustina
Sister Act
Working on Set
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
Snowmen
Short Film: Sexy Lederhosen
The Least of These
Short Film: First Date
Christianity is Cinematic
Overview of Christ-types in Storytelling
Braveheart
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
5 Reasons to Kill Christian Music
The Trouble with "Christian Movies"
Left Behind (2014)
Five Approaches to Defining a Christian Movie
Does God Care about Aesthetics?
Why do American Christian Movie Audiences have Bad Taste?
Is a Christian Film Industry Actually Necessary?
Why Christians Should Care about Foreign-Language Movies
Does Christianity Really Need Celebrities?
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
Film is Still Better than Television
Maria Mercedes
Theory on the Apparatus of Television and the Destruction of Our Relational Faculties
Some Brief Thoughts on Studio Wrestling
"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
Observations on Super Mario Maker
On Painting and Photography
Some Observations on Modern Art
Internet Pet Peeves
Notes on The Death and Life of Saint Faustina
Sister Act
Working on Set
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
Snowmen
Short Film: Sexy Lederhosen
The Least of These
Short Film: First Date
