One of the most controversial American directors in the history of cinema, Brian Russell De Palma also remains one of the most divisive and poorly understood. Part of the influential New Hollywood wave of filmmakers, De Palma has been perfecting polemical and exhilarating cinema since the 1960s. To his critics he’s been labelled a misogynistic […]
Month: November 2016
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10 Great 2016 Movies Too Weird for the Oscars
Every good movie fan knows that the Oscars are a flawed award ceremony at best, and a total travesty at worst. As the year draws to a close, however, speculation about who’s going to grab more nominations and, later, more statuettes at the Academy Awards is inevitable. Let’s distance ourselves from that for a moment, […]
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15 Great Movies Influenced by the Paintings of Michelangelo Caravaggio
In July 1597, a barber named Luca testified in court in a case of a missing dagger and cloak, he said: “This painter is a stocky young man…with a thin black beard, thick eyebrows and black eyes, who goes dressed all in black, in a rather disorderly fashion, wearing a black hose that is a […]
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7 Reasons Why “The Neon Demon” Is A Great Cinematic Accomplishment
For a film to be a great accomplishment, vision is required. Also, the transposition of vision to an artistic form must be adequate. Nicolas Winding Refn succeeds in both aspects in his “The Neon Demon”. The film follows a teenage model on the rise in the world of fashion. The idea is nothing new, it […]
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20 Cool Old-School Anime Films You Might Not Have Seen
The world of Japanese animation often tends to be really and quite deliciously weird. Some angels lay eggs, while the others smoke. Cute little girls take people to hell. Ghosts live and contemplate in their shells. Paprika has a flavor of dreams and nightmares. Kittens are the main ingredients of a surreal soup. And so […]
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25 Great Movies That Are Slightly Longer Than 90 Minutes
When reading the title of this list , some of you are probably thinking :”What? Really? What kind of list is this?”.So please, allow me to explain: It feels like the average length of films nowadays is getting longer for no real good reason. While it used to be an hour and a half, that […]