The Oscars is in a crisis. While normal Americans (and devoted fans around the world) would easily watch the Superbowl for over four hours, The Academy believe that one way to drive ratings up is to make the entire process shorter. The news that the Best Cinematography Award would be announced during the adverts shocked […]
Day: February 8, 2019
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All 20 Oscar Nominated Performances From 2018 Ranked
The Oscar nominations for best acting came with lots of happy surprises and lots of egregious snubs. Yet what remains is a lively and diverse list, spanning from utter brilliance to derivative caricature. In honour of their announcement, we have decided to rank them all, both male and female, supporting and lead, from best to […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces That May Make You Fall Asleep
Since D. W Griffith’s studies and the advent of the Hollywoodian rules and narrative – strongly appearing in The Birth of a Nation – the average viewer got used to the false illusion that classic cinema provides. After that, multiple cinematographic styles moved away from such basic principles. Movies that stray away from this tendency […]
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The 10 Most Influential Movie Masterpieces of All Time
Does Life imitate Art, or does Art imitate Life? The debate rages on, and will not be crucial for this article. Here we will consider the important phenomenon of Art influencing Art, viewed through the lens of film history. An artist’s inspiration may be drawn from an array of sources, but when that source is […]