Between 1899 and 1909 Wright built more than 100 projects, many of them outright masterpieces.
This time... we are going backwards, moving from the present day to the distant past, from classics in the making to outright masterpieces.
The stories are quite capable of standing alone (several are outright masterpieces), but ideally they should be read as a totality, arranged in the order Shalamov intended.
Both of those films are, if not outright masterpieces, at least in complete control of their tense and writhing themes, and I long for Haneke to cast his cold eye on the nervous impulses of the English-speaking nations.
His "Accordionist" (1911) is one of the outright masterpieces of its time, and from the same year there is a landscape done at Céret, where painting was to take a new turn.
There is a little room in the Pulitzer Foundation that has more outright masterpieces of high Cubism by Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris than I have ever before seen in so small a space.
But taken as a whole, it is astonishing how many outright masterpieces he created, films you can watch repeatedly, sometimes noticing a new angle, sometimes just thrilling all over again to the same brilliantly framed moments of danger, humour or fear.
In 2015, two shows that were initially greeted with lukewarm reviews became outright masterpieces: HBO's The Leftovers and, from Netflix, BoJack Horseman.
A whole lot of cinema, past and present, falls into that "other ways of making movies" category, and dismissing it outright in the name of fun risks throwing out quite a few masterpieces with the bathwater.
