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500 Movies – #459: Accattone
1961 Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Along with Fellini’s earliest films, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s feature debut marks a shift away from the neorealism that had defined the past decade or so of Italian...
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500 Movies – #460: Dead Ringers
1988 Directed by David Cronenberg Canadian director David Cronenberg is a master of body horror. The creeping dread that one feels when watching his films is not just visceral disgust, but an...
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500 Movies – #461: Pinocchio
1940 Directed by Ben Sharpsteen & Hamilton Luske From the release of Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, for approximately the next three decades, Walt Disney’s animated features pushed the...
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500 Movies – #462: Titicut Follies
1967 Directed by Frederick Wiseman Like Nellie Bly before him, Frederick Wiseman broke the (still standing) taboo of talking about how we treat the mentally ill. Unlike the loquacious Bly, though,...
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500 Movies – #463: The Wind
1928 Directed by Victor Sjöstrom Many American silent films have not aged well. Despite their greatness and importance, their set pieces and acting style can read as gratingly naïve to a contemporary...
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500 Movies – #464: Taste of Cherry
1997 Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Abbas Kiarostami’s minimalistic and downcast drama Taste of Cherry proved to be massively divisive upon its release, tying for the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes and...
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500 Movies – #465: The Red Circle
1970 Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville The familiar ‘one last job’ trope gets another go around in the stylish neo-noir The Red Circle. Following the savaging of his 1969 film Army of Shadows (now...
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500 Movies – #466: The Flowers of St. Francis
1950 Directed by Roberto Rossellini Reportedly, film historian and critic Marcel Oms called this film a “monument of stupidity,” and none other than François Truffaut named it “the most beautiful film...
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500 Movies – #467: Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922 Directed by Fritz Lang Though it seems strange to refer to a four-and-a-half hour crime epic as “minor,” in the grand scheme of Fritz Lang’s overall oeuvre, Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler doesn’t quite...
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500 Movies – #468: Miracle in Milan
1951 Directed by Vittorio De Sica Following up the untouchable classic Bicycle Thieves (1948), which less than half a decade after its release was voted the greatest film of all time on the inaugural...
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500 Movies – 469: Casino
1995 Directed by Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese’s Casino is an example of the director at his high-wire best and also his self-indulgent worst. The decidedly messy based-on-a-true-story crime drama is...
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500 Movies – #470: Winter Light
1962 Directed by Ingmar Bergman The middle film in Ingmar Bergman’s “Faith Trilogy” is not only the best of the three, but also one of Bergman’s most satisfying overall. The small, short chamber film...
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500 Movies – #471: The Dead
1987 Directed by John Huston Best known for adventures like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and The Man Who Would Be King, or gritty films like The Asphalt Jungle and Fat City, John Huston’s last work...
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500 Movies – #472: City of God
2002 Directed by Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund Don’t be turned off by the relentless, abrasive theatrics of Brazilian crime-drama City of God. Beneath the heavily-stylised exterior of this...
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500 Movies – #473: Yellow Earth
1984 Directed by Chen Kaige With each year that passes, the influence of and regard for Chinese film grows. Within the context of more widely-known works of Chinese cinema, Chen Kaige’s 1984 film...
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500 Movies – #474: Two-Lane Blacktop
1971 Directed by Monte Hellman Monte Hellman’s counterculture cult film Two-Lane Blacktop is often referred to as an “existential road movie.” Compared to like-minded films like Easy Rider (1969) or...
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500 Movies – #475: The Silence
1963 Directed by Ingmar Bergman The final film in Ingmar Bergman’s “Faith Trilogy,” The Silence occupies a special place in the Swedish director’s career. The trilogy is a transitional one, and as the...
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500 Movies – #476: Fellini Satyricon
1969 Directed by Federico Fellini Fellini’s 1969 adaptation of Petronius’s satire of Rome under Emperor Nero is one of the most blatant examples of the director’s unique carnivalesque aesthetic, and by...
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500 Movies – #477: A Hard Day’s Night
1964 Directed by Richard Lester The Beatles’ first and best movie arrived at a very unique time in pop culture, when four young rock ‘n’ roll musicians could make a film that wasn’t just a curiosity...
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Keep On Rising: Why “Only One” is one of Kanye West’s most important songs
No doubt you’ve heard the incredible news. Kanye West recorded a song with former-Beatle and peddler of gentle, inoffensive pop-rock, Paul McCartney. However, unlike when McCartney’s presence almost...
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