ESSENTIAL FILMS BLOG: February 2016

Very Good: B-

EFB Inaugural Criteria

Essential Films Blog is comprised of only films that are warranting a B- rating of quality or above.

Cinematic Aesthetic Theory

The films that are honored in this publication are viewed in their capacity to be visually splendorous (the paramount aspect of film) and emotionally stirring; demonstrated through the spheres of story, music and/or imagery.

The true, vital mark of great cinema is the mastery of time, place, and tone throughout a work.

Cinema, as a medium of the visual, and by that virtue one of the most lasting art forms on the partaker, must be assessed fundamentally on its aptitude to document the scenery of life experience with power.

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Documentaries are included in this undertaking, but short films, although many remarkable selections can be unearthed, are unfortunately not.

ESSENTIAL FILMS BLOG

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Sunday, February 28, 2016

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1969

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Hot Fuzz - 2007

Saturday, February 20, 2016

For All Mankind - 1989

Friday, February 19, 2016

Don't Look Now - 1973

Friday, February 12, 2016

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 2008

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Out of Sight - 1998

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

The Apartment - 1960

Sunday, February 7, 2016

Basquiat - 1996

Friday, February 5, 2016

Dope - 2015