Federico Fellini ranks amongst the filmmakers held in the highest of regards within the world of cinema. So much so, that adjectives like “Fellinian” and “Fellinieque” have been devised to describe certain characteristics closely associated with the Italian master, both in cinema as well as in art in general. He has won five Academy Awards […]
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12 Hilarious Mockumentaries That Are Worth Your Time
A mockumentary, a combination of the words “mock” and “documentary”, is a film (or television show) in which is certain subject is spoofed by relaying fictional events in a documentary-like manner as if they are real. The subject of the mockumentary is thereby parodied, although often the very form of documentaries themselves is also spoofed […]
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The 10 Best Audrey Hepburn Movies You Need To Watch
Audrey Hepburn was born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels in 1929. The daughter of a Dutch Baroness and a one-time honorary British consul in the Dutch East Indies, she spent her early life in Belgium, England and the Netherlands, where she lived in Arnhem under German occupation during World War II. After the war she […]
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10 Essential Marilyn Monroe Films You Need To Watch
There will never be another like Marilyn Monroe. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson in 1926, Marilyn started her career modelling, followed with tiny, often not speaking parts, in films for 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. But it wasn’t until her appearance in John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle in 1950 for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that people started to […]
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10 Essential John Huston Films You Need To Watch
One of Hollywood’s true legendary directors, screenwriters and actors, John Huston is part of Hollywood royalty. He was the son of Walter Huston, a renowned stage and screen actor, and the father of actress Anjelica Huston. They are the only family that can make the claim of having won Academy Awards in three separate generations […]
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The 30 Best War Movies of All Time
Let’s face it: even thirty titles isn’t really enough as the war movie genre has no shortage of great entries and obviously this list should not be taken as the be-all and end-all compendium of best war movies ever. There’s no MASH, The Big Red One, The Hurt Locker or Platoon even though all those […]