25. ‘A History of Violence’ (2005)
Early in the film, when Edie (Maria Bello) dons a cheerleader outfit and engages her husband Tom (Viggo Mortensen) in a 69ing session (the first in a non-porn American film), the act is sweet and tender. The same can’t be said for a second, much more violent session on the [...]
1. STAR WARS (1977)
Motion-control photography, in which a computer is used to control a long, complex series of camera movements, made possible the spaceship battles in Star Wars. It would have taken too long to film the scenes manually, says Anne Thompson, deputy film editor at The Hollywood Reporter.
2. TRON (1982)
It wasn’t the first film to [...]
La Jetée, 1962
Cinema itself is a trick of time — still pictures passed through a focused beam of light at 24 frames per second. We are reminded of that in La Jetée, Chris Marker’s 28-min.-long meditation on time travel, apocalypse and fate. Composed almost entirely of black-and-white still frames, voice-over and an elegiac score, La Jetée propels [...]
10. Billy Bob Thornton
No, you can’t take the Boxmasters into the booth with you.
He’s out there, somewhere, playing his music and pretending he wasn’t an actor. And if that’s the way he wants it, so be it — every person has a right to seek his/her dream, even if it leaves us mourning the absence [...]