Terry Gilliam made his start as the animator for Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and also collaborated on Python sketches as well as appearing on screen. His animation work was primarily based on cut-outs and collage, and that definitely gave him a great beginning and background. He was somewhat isolated from the group, busy doing his […]
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10 Great Movies You Didn’t Know Were Directed By Famous Actors
In the broadest term, auteur means author; that in the context of a motion picture, the authority of the final material can be claimed by the director of the film. While an author generally works in isolation with pen and paper or computer in hand, the director of a motion picture has to deal with […]
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10 Great Movies To Watch If You Like Gaspar Noe
The first three minutes of his film Carne included the real slitting of a horse’s neck, real images of child-birth and a young girl on a rocking horse which later becomes ingrained in a surreal fantasy of his characters desire for incestual sex with her. He also included his own masturbating whilst on cocaine in […]
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10 Famous Movies That Made Major Changes To Their Source Material
While there are some purists out there who want their favorite stories to always be translated to the screen completely faithfully, the more discerning cinephiles out there know that film is a different medium which often requires texts to be changed through adaptation. Discerning cineastes also know that filmmakers can drop the adaptational ball. Here […]
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The 10 Biggest Mysteries in David Lynch Movies
If you have experienced (because just watched is not the right word) the films of David Lynch, you have probably been puzzled about what is really going on; why people appear and disappear, switch identities, or do weird things. Even the timelines don’t go in any direction that is easy to understand. So here are […]
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The 10 Best Feminist Horror Movies of All Time
The horror film has often been criticized for its over-reliance on violence against women as plot devices. It’s a hard fact to dispute, given that larger numbers of women are killed onscreen and that their death scenes often take up more screen time than their male counterparts. Feminist film critics who write about the horror […]