As the years go by, cars lose their curves, records lose their scratchy sound and homes lose their lace. Times change and so do we‒ all at one with our cultures, our aesthetics, our fashions. Change is a need. It’s an unstoppable force, maybe, but it doesn’t erase memory in its sweeping establishment. On the […]
Author: Marillie Damoulianou
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10 Great Movie Directors Whose Styles Can’t Be Imitated
“To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body‒ both go together, they can’t be separated,” Jean-Luc Godard has said. Indeed, style is the parameter that translates ideas into art. It really represents the both polymorphic and transparent canvas […]
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10 of The Best Written Movies of 2018
Every structure needs an outline. Every composition needs notes. Every fairytale needs a story. A film is what we see: its frames, its motion, its colors, and its shadows. A film is also what we listen: its melodies, its noises, its moments of silence, and its voices. Yet, what would even a well-done motion picture […]
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The 10 Best Foreign Language Movies of 2018
Sometimes we like it, sometimes we don’t. Anyhow, we can’t avoid it: another circle has closed. Whether or not 2018 was a great temporal box for you, in its transient object, it’s gone forever. But the lights and shadows of this recently numbed sequence of seasons have been captured in the life-giving lenses of cinema, […]
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10 of The Most Disturbing Movies of All Time
“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure,” Marquis de Sade had said. It isn’t definite that pain is interwoven with pleasure, but in many cases, distressing spectacles manifest veritable cerebration that we often avoid, leading to a kind of shocking yet stimulating mental awakening. From Eugène Delacroix’s bloodstained epics to René […]
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10 Famous Movie Directors You Either Love Or Hate
An artist’s highest aspiration is to pierce a panhuman foundation of ideas, defining on that very breakthrough an original locus of distinctive perceptions. Indeed, art has been carrying out this task since its inception. Exposing the darkest and best self-concealed aspects of societies, various legendary artists have shocked through their work. But what has been […]