ESSENTIAL FILMS BLOG: January 2017

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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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Intolerance - 1916

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Cafe Society - 2016

Friday, January 20, 2017

The Salt of the Earth - 2014

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Heart of a Dog - 2015

Friday, January 6, 2017

Finding Dory - 2016

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

The Lost Weekend - 1945