International Women’s Day 2019 falls on Friday, March 8th, and it’s with this significant date in mind that Taste of Cinema offers up our selection of the 15 best women directors working today. Granted, this is not a definitive list, but it has been carefully curated to offer a wide selection of formidable filmmakers comprised […]
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The 10 Best Movie Scenes of 2018
In terms of pop culture, and the most buzzed about movie scenes of 2018 came from the hits. There’s Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga singing “Shallow” in A Star Is Born, the snap from Avengers: Infinity War, the Live Aid concert from Bohemian Rhapsody, any one of Mission Impossible: Fallout’s action set pieces, Kilmonger’s death […]
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10 Great Movies To Watch If You Like Stanley Kubrick
Cinema is an art form dominated primarily by auteurs – individuals who made such an impressive mark on cinema with their films, so much so that the very nature of the art form becomes less of a collaborative medium and more of a personal one. To identify the work of these individuals would be a […]
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Most Controversial Choices of Best Foreign Language Film (Part 2)
8. Mediterraneo (Raise the Red Lantern) – 1991 Sometimes its hard to second guess the rulings of the Academy. One such time came in 1991 when the foreign language film Oscar went to Italy’s entry that year, Mediterraneo. This film, which had really flown under the radar up until its win, was a sweet natured […]
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The 10 Most Controversial Choices of Oscar Best Foreign Language Film
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded in 1928, its primary goal was to add a bit of prestige and luster to the motion picture business….the Hollywood movie business. While it is, of course, certain that those creating the organization knew that there was a world of film making outside of […]
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10 Great Movies Overshadowed By Famous Movies With The Same Theme
Famous Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski once expressed his wonder at the fact that how different men, at different moments, at different places with different social statuses, can assemble a single musical note in the same way. This unification of mankind was one of the recurring themes in his films, dependent upon this very idea that […]