Posts tagged The Dark Knight
Sacrifice and the Ending of Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Why Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 remains one of the best superhero movies of all time.

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Essays, Yesterday's CinemaAnton BergstromSpider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina, Sam Raimi, Alvin Sargent, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael Chabon, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, endings, identity, identity crisis, superheroes, The Dark Knight, The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head, ambiguity, New Hollywood, responsibility, romantic loveComment
3 Brothers Film Top 100
3 Brothers Film Top 100

A personal pantheon of the films that shaped and continue to define the best of cinematic storytelling.

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FeaturesAnton Bergstrom2001: A Space Odyssey, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Psycho, Seven Samurai, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane, Return of the Jedi, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, The Godfather, Pinocchio, Vertigo, Jaws, Spirited Away, Alien, The Godfather Part II, Days of Heaven, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, The Third Man, The Tree of Life, The Dark Knight, My Neighbor Totoro, Dr. Strangelove, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Do the Right Thing, The Thing, The Searchers, Taxi Driver, Casablanca, Ben-Hur, From Russia with Love, Apocalypse Now, Tokyo Story, Rear Window, Blue Velvet, The Matrix, North by Northwest, Road House, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, West Side Story, Princess Mononoke, Fantasia, The Shining, Raging Bull, Metropolis, Minority Report, Fight Club, JFK, The Silence of the Lambs, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, A Serious Man, Memories of Murder, The Magnificent Ambersons, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Seventh Seal, Singin' in the Rain, American Psycho, Ran, Scrooge, The Good, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Casino Royale, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Schindler's List, King Kong, The Lion King, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Kingdom of Heaven, This Is Spinal Tap, Paths of Glory, The Manchurian Candidate, Memento, Goldfinger, Mulholland Drive, The Social Network, Rashomon, Beauty and the Beast, Interstellar, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Aguirre, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Double Indemnity, The Virgin Spring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Skyfall, E.T. the Extra-terrestrial, Chungking Express, There Will Be Blood, Wild Strawberries, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Le Samourai, The New World, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Jurassic Park, Dead Ringers, The GeneralComment