The action genre has come a long way since the creation of cinema. It has evolved and adapted so frequently and with such variety that it’s almost easy to forget that certain films were once considered the height of exciting cinema, from westerns to samurai and even silent short movies. Far from being mindless action […]
Day: February 5, 2016
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10 Filmmaking Lessons You Can Learn From Paul Thomas Anderson
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the finest directors working today. From his early shorts to Hard Eight, all the way to his latest film Junun, there is much we can learn from Anderson’s work: the way he chooses his actors, wields the camera in innovative […]
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The 20 Best Japanese Animated Movies of All Time
Japanese animated film, or “anime” as it is commonly known, has been part of the mainstream entertainment in Japan since the 80s, when they experienced a boom in production. In the following decades, anime became a global phenomenon, and currently over 430 production companies are involved in an industry that has a total market value […]
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Plastic Cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni
The stellar filmmaking career of Michelangelo Antonioni spanned over five decades and included fifteen features as well as various shorts and Chung Kuo, Cina (1972), a documentary on the Chinese working class. Enamoured from a young age with drawing and the violin, Antonioni maintained a lifelong interest in music and visual art, which undoubtedly contributed […]
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15 Great Movies Where Protagonist Gets Used For Evil Reasons
Imagine that you meet someone and they involve you in certain actions. At first, you easily get involved but later you realize that you ended up in an inescapable trap. And that person is evil and diabolical as hell. Then they put you into hell-like situation. They may have reasons or they may not. They […]