Adelante Film Club - February 26, 2021

 Arts and Faith Top 100 Films (2011)

Top 25 Films of 2020

The Columbia Film Language Glossary (also Film Clips illustrating the terms)

Developing a "critical eye":

Ideas: Implicitly Pretentious. "The Big Ideas of Kubo and the Two Strings." (Posted on Youtube: November 6, 2019)

Aesthetics: The Cinema Cartography "Colour in Storytelling." (Posted on Youtube: July 29, 2015)

For further study - developing a critical eye:

Beyl, Cameron. "Christopher Nolan: The Dark Knight." (Posted on Youtube: April 28, 2020)

---. "Christopher Nolan: The Dark Knight Rises and the Apocalyptic Epics." (Posted on Youtube: November 28, 2017)

Booy, Miles. Interpreting Star Wars: Reading a Modern Film Franchise. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021 (excerpt, pages 1 -25)

The Cinema Cartography. "Breaking the Rules: The French New Wave." (Posted on Youtube: May 28, 2015)

---. "The Cinematography That Changed the World." (Posted on Youtube: July 31, 2020)

---. "Composition in Storytelling." (Posted on Youtube: January 22, 2016)

---. "Editing in Storytelling." (Posted on Youtube: December 9, 2016)

---. "Groundbreaking Films That Defied Cinema Convention." (Posted on Youtube: December 29, 2020)

---. "Lighting in Storytelling." (Posted on Youtube: May 22, 2020)

Clothes on Film [Christopher Laverty's website devoted to the art of costume design in film and television.]

Film Analysis 2.0 ["The Film Analysis Guide was developed to meet the needs of faculty and students at Yale University who are interested in becoming familiar with the vocabulary of film studies and the techniques of cinema. The user can either read the complete document or search out a particular topic of interest. — Related links within the Guide are provided as appropriate, as are links to film clips illustrating the topic or term in question."]

Filmsite ["Tim Dirks created the popular filmsite.org website, aka Greatest Films, in mid-1996, and soon, it will celebrate its landmark 25th anniversary in 2021. He has been writing about and reviewing films on the site ever since. Tim originated Filmsite and has remained its sole contributor, manager, and editor - he adds significant content to the site spanning all the years of cinematic history, often writes blogs and other film-related articles, and has engaged in a number of on-camera interviews about film. ... The site includes rich reference material including Academy Awards history, film genres, film terms, film history by decade, trivia, and lots of lists of 'best' films, stars, scenes, quotes, resources, posters, etc."]