One of the great pleasures of watching a movie for the first time is being surprised by it. There are few movies, however, that can claim to be truly surprising, to take the viewer on a journey they couldn’t have anticipated when first arriving at the theater (or pressing play at home). When it does […]
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The 15 Best Movies of VIFF 2020
Now that the sun has set on the sensational 39th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (which ran from September 24th – October 7th, 2020), Taste of Cinema offers up our favorites from what was another exciting, and very impressive festival and being charged with the task of picking our 15 favorites was no easy affair. […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces For An Introduction To Slow Cinema
Let’s face it – slow cinema can be a tough genre to introduce ourselves to, and even harder if you don’t know where to start. Diving in the deep end can be rather painful – definitely don’t start with the likes of Melancholia (Diaz, 2008) or Satantango (Tarr, 1994) unless you’ve prepared yourself for a […]
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The 10 Best Chow Yun Fat Movies
Chow Yun Fat is the coolest action star of all time because he’s the sweetest. Or maybe it’s because he’s the sweetest he’s the coolest. On May 18, 1955, Chow Yun Fat was born on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. His mother was a cleaner and vegetable farmer, his father an oil tanker. Living in a […]
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The 12 Best David Lynch Short Films
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” – David Lynch Red curtains. Telephone […]
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10 Great Movies About The Loss of Innocence
The innocents, by not conceiving evil, have the capacity to marvel at the world as a mirror of the purity of their spirit. They have no judgments or pre-established concepts so they experience life through their instincts. This is why innocence is often related to childhood. But once the evils of society are known in […]