Why, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, of course! After The Return of the King was released, I wrote two longish essays about the film trilogy, one attempting to explain where it sat in terms of film history, and a second, somewhat more controversial, in which I posited that the film trilogy was better than the book trilogy, in terms of storytelling. Instead, allow me to present a series of five thoughts about the The Lord of the Rings, both the individual movies, and the production itself. The theatrical versions are, from an aesthetic, structural and storytelling point of view, the most complete versions. But they aren’t truly good, or essential cinema, in the way the Lord of the Rings films are.

Source: The Guardian December 25, 2023 19:52 UTC