Surrealist cinema came to life in the 1920s in the birth-country of many milestones in cinematic history: France. The surrealist movement is characterized by heavy use of symbolism, often in the form of absurd imagery. A surrealist film doesn’t have to be absurd or shocking though, it can just as well be an opposition to […]
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10 Great Movies With Character Actors In The Spotlight
What is a “character actor”? And where does such a specimen come from? Most of us are familiar with these players often becoming unusual eccentric types or the everyday matriarch or patriarch of a family. More often than not they can feel like distant, idiosyncratic relatives who have always belonged in our lives that we […]
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10 Great Horror Movies Favored By Quentin Tarantino
When you look at a guy like Quentin Tarantino you just kind of know that he’s a horror movie afficinato. You don’t have to be particular with his films on an intimate level. You don’t have to know his backstory or his credentials. Just by casually listening to any conversation the guy has or any […]
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10 Great Acid Westerns To Trip Peyote To
Something was happening to the western in the 1960s and ’70s. The old screen heroes were ageing out and so were their moralities. The Shootist (1976) saw John Wayne confronting his age and mortality, while Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) and Peckinpah’s Pat Garett and Billy the Kid (1973) cast the western’s classical […]
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The 10 Best Agnes Varda Documentaries
Agnes Varda is an auteur filmmaker commonly associated with the Nouvelle Vague or French New Wave Movement. Her career spanned from the 1950s until the late 2010s, during which she made a name for herself as both a fiction and non-fiction filmmaker. Impressively, the quality of films never wavered during her long career as evidenced […]