The 50

The 50 films this log is working through, chosen to cover the major genres, movements and techniques of film. Each one is ticked off, and linked to its review, as it's watched.

4 of 50 reviewed

·Nosferatu (1922)Expressionist lighting & shadow

·Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)Silent-era visual storytelling

·M (1931)Early sound design, framing

·Citizen Kane (1941)Deep focus, chiaroscuro

·Casablanca (1942)Classical continuity editing

·Double Indemnity (1944)Film noir lighting

·The Third Man (1949)Dutch angles, shadow

·Bicycle Thieves (1948)Italian neorealism

·Rashomon (1950)Narrative structure

·Seven Samurai (1954)Staging, blocking, editing

·The Seventh Seal (1957)Composition, symbolism

·Breathless (1960)Jump cuts, French New Wave

·L'Avventura (1960)Art-cinema pacing

·8½ (1963)Surreal structure, self-reflexivity

·Persona (1966)Bergman composition

·Playtime (1967)Tati, wide-frame staging

·Bonnie and Clyde (1967)New Hollywood violence/editing

·2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Visual storytelling, minimal dialogue

·The Godfather (1972)Gordon Willis lighting

·Chinatown (1974)Neo-noir, screenplay structure

·Taxi Driver (1976)Colour, psychological framing

·Apocalypse Now (1979)Sound design, colour

·Psycho (1960)Horror/suspense editing

✓The Shining (1980)Steadicam, blocking

·Alien (1979)Sci-fi horror atmosphere/lighting

✓Blade Runner (1982)Lighting, production design

·Die Hard (1988)Action geography/blocking

·Unforgiven (1992)Western deconstruction

·The Silence of the Lambs (1991)Framing, POV, tension

·In the Mood for Love (2000)Wong Kar-wai, colour

·Amelie (2001)Colour grading

·Hero (2002)Colour-coded storytelling

·There Will Be Blood (2007)Natural light, score

·No Country for Old Men (2007)Sound, minimalism

✓Drive (2011)Neon lighting

·Pulp Fiction (1994)Nonlinear editing

✓Memento (2000)Reverse structure

·Run Lola Run (1998)Editing pace, structure

·Requiem for a Dream (2000)Rapid-cut editing

·Tokyo Story (1953)Ozu, stillness

·Andrei Rublev (1966)Tarkovsky, long takes

·City of God (2002)Kinetic editing, colour

·Parasite (2019)Class staging, blocking

·A Separation (2011)Naturalistic staging

·Man with a Movie Camera (1929)Documentary, montage

·Hoop Dreams (1994)Observational documentary

·Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)Form-breaking documentary

·Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)Action editing/colour

·Roma (2018)Long takes, sound design

·Moonlight (2016)Colour, intimacy via lighting