The 15 Best Movies About Fictional Musicians

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There’s something amazingly cinematic about a musician’s life. They are usually torn between vastness of their creative mind and hardships of the real world, yet they are strangely competent at making themselves likeable. Musicians are pretty much perceived as coolest human beings possible, and we like the myths and stories that make them larger than […]

11 Masters of The Craft that Can Teach You Everything You Need to Know about Film Editing

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In a way, film editors are given the permission to play the role of ancient Gods all the time, by stitching the mangled wombs of invented universes with a beatified cut. Their work takes place inside a dark, lacuna-like space. But for them, this bleak cosmos might as well be a glorious, crystal dome among white clouds and […]

The 10 Greatest South Korean Filmmakers Working Today

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This list is meant to showcase some of today’s finest filmmakers from South Korea. While there are directors responsible for the classics in the history of South Korean cinema, this list is meant to showcase and highlight the filmmakers who are shaping the identity of South Korean cinema. With each filmmaker we’ve included a pair of […]

11 Great French Films Recommended by Martin Scorsese

The influence of French cinema on Scorsese’s work is fairly obvious to anyone familiar with the key works of the French New Wave. Scorsese’s early works, such as Mean Streets, clearly tapped the often anarchic energy that directors like Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol brought to the world of cinema in the early […]

5 Reasons ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ is a Greater Film than ‘The Godfather’

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Comparing works of art is an often self-defeating endeavour, and yet it is inherently compulsive when it comes to film. Most critics compile a list of the movies which they have most appreciated in ascending order on any given year, and the Academy Awards – arguably the most universally recognised seal of approval for any […]