Greatest
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The story behind City Lights and cinema’s greatest ever fina…
[ad_1] Simply the best? There are, of course, many rival claimants to the title of the greatest final shot in cinema history. Planet of the Apes’ Statue of Liberty sighting, the slow realisation in The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s freeze-frame finish, the door closing in The Godfather, and Norma Desmond asking for…
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Seven of the greatest rivalries in art history
[ad_1] Born just a year apart (Turner in sooty London in 1775, Constable in a serene Suffolk village in 1776), the two were, from the first, “fire and water” opposites, as another reviewer in 1831 would describe them. Turner, whose father was a barber, was just 14 when he began studying art, while Constable, born…
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Why David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive is the greatest film of t…
[ad_1] Alamy (Credit: Alamy) It puzzled many viewers but delighted critics. We explain why the late, great David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive topped BBC Culture’s poll to find the greatest films of the 21st Century. Cinema in the early years of the 21st Century has been experiencing something of an existential crisis. Terms such as “TV-like”…
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The Greatest Grand Canyon Speed Runs, Ranked (Not By Speed) …
[ad_1] Last week I lost the Grand Canyon permit lottery for the twelfth year running, which got me thinking about the great sneaks of Grand Canyon history. Among them was the late Fletcher Anderson’s solo descent in about 1977. The run trip took Anderson about 49 hours, which at the time was the fastest anyone…