10 Great Movies That Best Utilize Available & Natural Lighting

Barry Lyndon

There’s a skeptical notion in the world of filmmaking that affiliates the use of available or natural light as being cheap, the filmmakers lazy, or that the project was rushed – because the filmmakers were being cheap… and lazy. And there is, alas… some merit for those reservations. Because the more equipment a filmmaker carries […]

30 Essential Films for an Introduction to Italian Cinema

cinema paradiso

Italy has been involved in film since the origins in the early 1900s and were highly influential to the development of cinema with the Futurist movement. Unfortunately due to the Fascist restrictions on culture during the 1920s and 30s the output of film was weaker. In the 1940s, however, that the Italians made a significant […]