James Gray is a film director and screenwriter born in New York City on April 14, 1969. When he was a film student, he directed a short feature called “Cowboys and Angels”, attracting attention to his work. A few years later, he directed his first feature film, “Little Odessa”, which won the Silver Lion at […]
Year: 2017
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10 Directors Who Started Their Careers With a Masterpiece
Making a great film as a career start is something that could suddenly launch a director to stardom and maybe guarantee the funding of his second film (or even the third and fourth). In film history, many acclaimed directors started their careers with movies that could easily be considered masterpieces and, among them, plenty could […]
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All 7 Movies From The “Saw” Franchise Ranked From Worst To Best
“Why should things be easy to understand?” so says Thomas Pynchon, author of the famously near impenetrable Gravity’s Rainbow (1973). “The device you’re wearing is hooked into your rib cage. By the time this tape is finished, you will have one minute to find a way out” so says Jigsaw, the puppet master that haunts […]
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10 Highly Anticipated Future Productions By Acclaimed Directors
Normally, Taste of Cinema is a platform for looking into the glorious (or not so glorious) past of cinema. This list will take an opposite approach and examine some future productions by acclaimed directors. 10. First Man (Damien Chazelle) After his surpassing success of “La La Land”, Damien Chazelle has another iron in the […]
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All 17 Luc Besson Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
So many fingers, so many pies, it sometimes seems like Luc Besson is everywhere! There are, quite literally, scores of films that he has been involved with: as writer, as director, and as various types of producer. He’s been involved with some well known franchises: Taken, Taxi, Transporter and that’s just from the ’T’ part […]
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8 Reasons Why “Avatar” Is The Most Overrated Movie of The 21st Century (So Far)
When James Cameron’s Avatar was released at the end of 2009, audiences were smitten. With its high-tech 3D and its use of cutting-edge technology, Avatar was awesome to look at. It made $77 million in its first weekend of release and eventually made an astounding $760 million domestically (and $2.7 BILLION dollars worldwide). Critics were […]