Since the beginning of the Great Depression and the rise of organized crime, gangsters have fascinated people around the world. Gangster films often portray a human side of the character, almost making them look like both an antihero and a Robin Hood. Considerably categorized as film noir in earlier days, gangster movies dealt with the mafia […]
Month: October 2014
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The 15 Best British Films of The 1990s
British film in the 90’s began much the same way as the 80’s had ended with few opportunities to gain what little funding was available. To appreciate the films of the decade, the 90’s can be understood as a game of two halves, roughly splitting into grittier more socially conscious films of the early half […]
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10 Great Surreal Independent Horror Films That Are Worth Watching
Surrealism and dream-like imagery has been infused in various forms of visual art throughout history. In the cinema, surreal imagery is a crucial part of its distinction from other art forms as it can go further in depicting a dream-like state through montage and time-based storytelling. Stylized cinematic treatment of a hallucinatory dreamstate or a […]
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Slow Cinema of Bela Tarr
Bela Tarr, who has had a huge influence on contemporary filmmakers like Gus Van Sant and Jim Jarmusch, is one director whose films are more read about than watched. And it is not without a reason. Imagine a seven-hour-long movie made up of just 150 shots! Yes, he is capable of that. A proponent of […]
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The 20 Best Meryl Streep Movie Performances
A rabbi, a nun, a fashion mogul and even a former Prime-Minister, Meryl Streep has done it all and quite convincingly. Considered the best actress of her generation, at 65 she shows no signs of slowing down. With two of her latest films in post-production and one in pre-production for 2015, with Diablo Cody’s signature […]
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The 20 Best Black & White Horror Films In The Sound Era
If horror cinema came to fruition and experimented with all manner of wonders in the silent film era, sound didn’t so much kill it as streamline it for effect. Certain norms came into play that kept film-makers from imagining themselves all the way down the wrong blind alleys (as silent filmmakers occasionally did) and had […]