The past, put on the record.
chess with Death, and far funnier than its reputation
the last of the truly vast old-fashioned epics
Salieri's confession, and a Best Picture that holds up
shot inside the Forbidden City
Palme winner, fifty years of China
Best Picture, and an argument about America that hasn't stopped
Zhang's most humane, and banned at home
the Irish revolution at full scale
Spielberg's most argued-over historical film
Scorsese's most beautiful and least seen
six hours across forty years of Italy
Scorsese's biggest canvas
Malick's most underrated
North African troops in the French army
Day-Lewis, and a film about vote-counting
unflinching, formally rigorous
DuVernay's breakthrough
Scorsese's most personal, and least seen
88 minutes, decades of love
a Best Picture win that started an argument and never settled it
memory rendered at enormous scale
the blockbuster as a talking-heads tragedy
215 minutes shot on VistaVision
