[Written by Josh Ilan] In an interview in the build up to her new album, Fiona Apple said she quit cocaine after a night listening to her then boyfriend Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino both high on the drug in a private cinema. However, this is not the only thing that connects these auteurs.…
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Every member of the film industry lost their minds tonight out of sheer joy when the impossible happened: Parasite won Best Picture. Granted, there were concerns that the film would lose due to being a foreign language film from South Korea with no actors recognizable in Hollywood and a lack of precursors like the DGA…
Our staff members all came up with their lists of predictions for this years Academy Awards. Below, you’ll find a composite of all of the predictions that lists the most common picks for each category. Read on and see if we can convince you to make any last minute changes to your own predictions! Best…
Joker picked up the most nominations and 1917 seems to be the predicted winner (at least according to most of our staff) for this year’s Oscars, but we’ve got other films in mind for what we’d like to see take home the gold this Sunday: Best Picture: Marriage Story Though it was initially seen as…
The 77th annual Golden Globe Awards started off with business as usual for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s booze-filled party meant to celebrate the year’s best achievements in film and television. It was almost a revival of the early 2000s: Jennifer Aniston! Brad Pitt! Jennifer Lopez! Charlize Theron! Eddie Murphy! Renée Zellweger! As the celebrities…
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Titles are hyperlinked to the contributor’s writing on the films as applicable. Henry Baime: 1. Portrait of a Lady on Fire It’s hard to think of anything else as the film of 2019 when this one has defined so much of what I’ve done this year. I spent the last seven months chasing the film…
25. Enemy 24. Her 23. I Saw The Devil 22. Walden 21. Tower 20. Lost River 19. A Long Day’s Journey Into Night 18. The House That Jack Built 17. Blue Valentine 16. Mother! 15. High Life 14. The VVitch 13. Post Tenebras Lux 12. Apocalypse After 11. Hard To Be A God 10. Holy…
A Serious Man The Coen brothers have made a career of great films so distinct in style that there is no confusing them for anyone else’s work, yet so different from each other that everyone has a different favorite. After winning their Oscars for No Country for Old Men, the brothers made the type of…
The Academy Award-winner American Beauty didn’t make the list of our favorite films of 1999 (you’ll eventually find out who on our staff ranks it in their 5 worst films of all time), but here are our staff’s picks for the best of 1999, a monumental year in cinema: Magnolia In Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson’s…
Midnight Cowboy may have won the Oscar for Best Picture, but you wont find it topping any of our lists. The Cinema Etc. staff discusses our favorite films of 1969: Easy Rider Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a very different Captain America captivated audiences around the world. This Cap, Peter Fonda, played a drug…
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