The line between what is fiction (narrative) and reality (documentary) and the possible perceptions of each through the immediate separation of the frame have been blurred and reworked by filmmakers since the beginning of the cinema. This concept of the viewers perception of reality and what exists inside and outside the frame is equally as […]
Author: Ian Cahoon
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The 15 Most Overlooked Films of The 2010s (So Far)
World cinema has seen an increasingly great number of overlooked and smaller features work its way onto the market over the past five years due to booming cinematic movements around the world, help of a stronger online presence both in the ability to showcase and discuss these features, and cheaper ways of making films. The […]
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The 10 Best Foreign Films of 2014
2014 saw a large number of foreign films invade the Western film market whether it be through the prolific film festivals of Toronto, SXSW, New York, along with many others, or the boom on the home video market, as well as many who had a harder time seeping into the limelight due to any number […]
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10 Essential Krzysztof Kieślowski Films You Need To Watch
Krzysztof Kieslowski has shaped the cinema of the past 35 years from his days of documentary filmmaking up to his international coproduction’s that would serve as his last testament to the cinema, which he loved and acknowledged throughout his filmography. From his early television films for Polish television to European art house fame, his cinema […]
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20 Great Japanese Cult Films That Are Worth Watching
The post-WWII Japanese film industry has seen a slew of genres and massive changes throughout the decades from the new wave movement to the vitality of digital filmmaking devices reinventing the economic and cinematic approach therefore the studio systems and financial structure of filmmaking itself. In this time period many styles of “cult” films and […]