ESSENTIAL FILMS BLOG: August 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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Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The Wolf of Wall Street - 2013

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Iron Man - 2008

Monday, August 29, 2016

The Night of the Hunter - 1955

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Whiplash - 2014

Monday, August 22, 2016

Tommy - 1975

Friday, August 19, 2016

The Color Purple - 1985

Monday, August 15, 2016

Anomalisa - 2015

Friday, August 12, 2016

The Look of Silence - 2014

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Menace II Society - 1993

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 1966