Cinema and France. Or is it better to say France and cinema? The birth of an infant motion picture dates from 1895, by the French Lumière brothers. But apart from giving rise to the whole foundation of arthouse cinema, including cornerstone films as “Un Chien Andalou” and “À bout de soufflé,” France has also focused […]
Author: Marillie Damoulianou
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10 Great Recent Movies You May Have Missed
Time flies. For a movie buff, the hasty seconds of time count as cinematic experiences. But life is one and only, while cinema is formed by infinite pieces of colors, shadows, and thoughts. Would it ever be possible to watch all of the existing good films and the ones to come? Arguably, not. Even if […]
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The 10 Best Movies About Erotic Obsessions
Once you’ve fallen in love, your eyes gaze upon an otherworldly, torturously untouchable object of desire. Captured in the static frames of memory, emerging in the flow of a body’s kinesiology, and endlessly marked on a scent’s overtone, that stinging feeling of the deepest erotic love becomes the most intoxicating drug. Until the totalitarian conquest […]
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10 Banned Movies That Are Now Considered Masterpieces
Our mottled, bustling, and multicultural planet is doubtlessly a charming reflection of Pandora’s box. Since the very first rational ideas until the most complex organizational rulings, and from an Amazonian tribe’s unrecorded principles to China’s precise totality of precepts, you can fathom the intentions for a collective freedom that is both pursued and shrank by […]
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10 Existential Movie Masterpieces You Might Not Have Seen
To be, or not to be? Perhaps the most famous Shakespearean quote is the first articulated existential question. And here we are, centuries later, but nobody has ever answered this painful question for us‒ not even Friedrich Nietzsche, or Søren Kierkegaard. Not even Jean-Paul Sartre. The total existential philosophical movement has been able to analyze […]
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The 10 Most Iconic Shots of the French New Wave
Somewhere in the hustling streets of Paris, in the retro cafés, or behind the penetrable walls of a modern era’s stylish yet melancholic apartments, a radical film movement found the proper soil and materials to build a brand new, epochal but still prophetic landmark of a fresh cultural and sociopolitical consciousness. Conjured by artists who […]