If you are tired of blockbusters and comic book films, and would like to feel confused, freaked out and constantly asking yourself, “What just happened on screen?”, then you are in the right place. Directors on this list specialize in teleporting viewers from their cinematic comfort zone to a bizarre and surrealistic dimension where anything […]
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The 10 Best Arthouse Directors of All Time
There are many kinds of films; some of them are crafted with big audiences in mind and thus created in common codes and conventions. But there also some films that have more artistic ambitions, rather than commercial ones. These films are done in very different schemes than the commercial ones, most of the time by […]
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10 Movie Directors Who Made More Than 5 Masterpieces
When the writers (and future film makers) of the influential French film journal Cahiers du Cinema formulated what became known as “the auteur theory” in the late 1950s and early 60s, it caused a lot of controversy in cinematic circles. Simply put, it stated that the director was the prime mover, the “author” of the […]
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10 Movie Directors Who Have Great Taste In Music
Music has always been an important part of film, and there’s plenty of movies that make great use of their musical scores or certain song selections for key scenes. However, some directors manage to marry music and film so well that they’re widely recognized for the music they use in films just as much as […]
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10 Movie Directors Who Best Fuse Art and Entertainment
Within the category of narrative fiction film there is a broad range of directors who are either more devoted to film as art or to film as entertainment. Both art and entertainment serve legitimate functions for viewers but some directors manage to advance the art of cinema while still making enjoyable movies. Here is a […]
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15 Child Actors Who Lost Their Way
It’s hard to grow up as a child actor and manage to keep your career on track when becoming an adult. Many former child actors lost their interest in acting, faced drug or alcohol-related problems, or simply proved to be not so talented as they appeared to be in their early days. There are also […]