The great British filmmaker David Lean (“Lawrence of Arabia,” “Doctor Zhivago”) said once, “I’m first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.” For the story is the motor that drives the screenplay, and so on the film itself. There’s a huge difference between the story and the screenplay; a screenplay is a set of […]
Author: Ahmed Helmy
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10 Great Actor-Director Collaborations Not Talked Often Enough
A good director can absorb the best of their actors in service of the film, but a great director is the one that makes actors in their roles unimaginable to be replaced by any other actor. Not because they are great actors, or because the role is written for them, but because the frequent collaboration […]
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10 Forgotten Movie Masterpieces From The 1990s
The 1990s were cinematically rich, without a doubt; it was the decade that brought us great filmmakers such as David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton, and Paul Thomas Anderson, and great masterpieces like “Fight Club,” “Pulp Fiction,” “12 Monkeys,” “Heat” and much more. While we can appreciate the great mainstream masterpieces that came out of […]
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10 Famous Movies That Wasted Great CGI
While we are in a time where computers are used to digitally de-age actors or create a completely digital universe with all its details, using expressive CGI is a slightly new trend in filmmaking. Fifty years ago, editing was done manually and special effects were done with building actual models. But because of the digital […]
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10 Beautiful Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
What constitutes a beautiful film varies from one person to another, but some aspects of filmmaking must be counted when stating that a film is “beautiful.” The word ‘beautiful’ usually refers to something with a pleasing appearance, but when it comes to moving images with sounds, characters, narratives, and a mental and emotional connection, it’s […]