In this edition of Film Filings, Jordan Poss reviews Christopher Nolan’s 2006 epic about stage magicians; Samuel J. Stephens a full ranking and overview of David Lean’s filmography; Nathan Gilmore reviews three major Academy Award winners and contenders from the 1980s.

In this Film Filings: An update about “Raymar”; Witty Writes About Nigel Kneale; Poss on Disney’s ‘Locomotive’; Stephens on Branagh’s ‘Henry’; Gilmore: A Peck On the Cheek, The Grey Zone, and Boyhood.

In this edition of Film Filings: Oppenheimer, Unforgiven, Lawrence of Arabia, Night of the Hunter, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and Kes.

Indiana Jones and his predecessors; Fritz Lang’s M.

This edition of Film Filings contains reviews of two existential 1965 colonial adventures, a look at eleven Australian classics, one of Chaplin’s last, and meditation of the communal experience of theatre-going.

Over at his blog, novelist and teacher Jordan M. Poss has done his own spectacular film ranking…the complete films of the Coen Brothers. And don’t miss his follow up review of the most recent Coen film, The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Roger Ebert called the film Bresson’s “finest prayer." Other Bresson films have been more dramatic, more exciting and more viscerally involving—for me, personally, A Man Escaped—but none more spiritually. Balthazar stands apart in its moral and spiritual rigor.

Ready for some delicious film-ranking controversy? Having this many Alfred Hitchcock films to work with is a real pleasure. There are 56 films total, with 3 require pairing up (you’ll see why), so there are 53 ranked slots. I’ve come up with 7 Tiers—Enthusiastic, Great, Overrated, Underrated, Worthwhile, Stepping Stones, and Sad and Awful.