What does nostalgia look like to you? Cambridge Dictionary defines nostalgia as a feeling of pleasure when musing over one’s past. A feeling complemented by just a slight tinge of sadness. It’s something universally melancholic, a peculiar sensation with the ability to surface in the most unexpectedly unremarkable of situations. From smoking a cigarette on […]
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10 Upcoming 2019 Movies That Are Doomed To Fail
2019 looks like it’s going to be full of great films, but just like with every year, there are undeniably going to be a lot of box office bombs and massive disappointments, and in this list we will be looking at 10 films that seem most likely to fall into that second category of awfulness. […]
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The 10 Greatest Director-Cinematographer Relationships of All Time
When you first get into film, a big mistake people make is interpreting the influence a director has on a film’s visual aesthetics incorrectly. That’s the wonderful day that you learn what cinematography is. A director might have a vision, but the director of photography is the person to make this happen. An auteur filmmaker […]
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10 Great Movies Made By One-Time Directors
Usually we get to hear about directors who made one great film in their entire career. Then there are directors who made just one film and directed nothing else. Some are films where you think maybe it’s best for them to pursue a career in a different field, but then there are some really amazing […]
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The 10 Most Stylistically Subversive Movies of All Time
The protocol which governed the selection of the following films is one that emanates from a particular conception of form and style. The films listed below take as their starting point not a conception of style as something superfluous, ornamental and subject to the caprices of the director. The films below recognize that style is […]
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10 Famous Movie Scenes Where Actors Weren’t Acting
In the earliest days of cinema, there was no acting. The experimenters of cinema such as the Lumiere brothers used to place their camera at a fixed position and record the events of daily life until the film stock ran out. In a lesser extent, it leans toward the documentary filmmaking approach of the present, […]