Almost a century ago, audiences gathered in theaters so as to behold Maria Falconetti’s face in “The Passion of Joan of Arc” and drift on all those layers of emotion that pulse behind that sight. Some decades later, audiences stared at Andrei Tarkovsky’s foggy dreams as taking the shape of a perceptible object on the […]
Author: Marillie Damoulianou
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The 10 Best Movies About Sexual Awakening
We desire, we fall in love. We are haunted by curves and scents. Since when do all these inexplicable processes begin to evolve in one’s body and soul? Even before we receive our mother’s milk for the first time, sexuality is already rooted somewhere in the tender soil of subconscious. A shapeless shadow of sexual […]
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10 Great Movie Classics You’ve Probably Never Seen
What makes a movie an all-time classic? Which is the magic ingredient that protects a motion picture from the time’s dust? It could be its verity toward the culture of a space-time setting, its sentimental originality, even its timeless impact on art and collective moral sense. Perhaps there’s something more than that in the movie […]
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The 10 Most Psychedelic Movies of The 21st Century
It’s the numbing effect of alcohol on mind; It’s Jim Morrison’s poetry and Andrei Tarkovsky’s cinema. We call this sense “psychedelia”‒a sense that represents our mental state as we attempt to experience an awakened dream. Such a transcendental act of conscience has been yearned by our kind since its very first occurrence and through many […]
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10 of The Longest Silent Movie Masterpieces Ever
It was back then, centuries ago, when the invention of camera obscura would completely change the way we record the past, recreate memory and observe the detail of a fleeting moment. This premature occurrence of a static recording medium signified a very first subtle step into the idols of a man-made mirror of life: cinema. […]
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10 Fascinating Movie Scenes That Are Pure Cinema
Cinema sometimes is a shadow of thoughts carved in the pathway of its creator’s steps through life. Cinema is both science and magic. Cinema, in its purest form, is a reflection of beauty and ugliness into shapes and shades that stain one’s mind in their sincere illustration. In Ingmar Bergman’s shattered subliminal terrors, we’ve loved […]