The 15 Best Palme d’Or Winners of All Time

No strangers to the prestige of the 70 year-old bonanza of cinema that is the Cannes Film Festival, most filmmakers aspire to get their films open there; an aspiration that even with the amount of controversy some experimental cinema generates there, remains undimmed. Controversy has become a part of Cannes, and even the infamous booing […]

The 20 Greatest Movie Performances Honored At The Cannes Film Festival

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At 70, the prestigious festival held annually at the beautiful French city is hardly in want of recognition. Films that play here often go on to become cherished masterpieces of world cinema, or awards players and even in a few instances, huge box-office successes. There is an allure to Cannes that even in an uninspiring […]

The 15 Greatest Oscar-Winning Performances No One Talks About

The Oscars have always been so much more than just the movies. Between the red carpet, the after-parties and the on-stage performances, discussion about the quality of cinema being honored has had to content itself with a subdued attention of mainstream audiences. Some years down the road, the memory of a certain artist holding an […]

All 17 David Lean Movies Ranked From Worst To Best

What first springs to mind, when the words David Lean are uttered in a conversation? Boundless ambition, humungous, daring, epic cinema of the kind that inspired generations to come? Maybe. Or maybe a particular dislike for overlong, self-indulgent, dated expressionism that can no longer be classified as relevant, if it ever was in the first […]

The 30 Most Perfect Movie Shots of the 21st Century (So Far)

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The cinematic consciousness of a viewer is primarily defined by memories. The memories collectively determine the perception, however distorted, that the viewer holds towards a certain film. And while the verbal and the acoustic play a critical role in shaping those memories, the first contact towards all cinematic art is visual. Not very disparate from […]