Rainer Werner Fassbinder emerged in the late sixties to become one of the most prolific and influential filmmakers of what would become known as New German Cinema. Fassbinder was born in 1945 and like other filmmakers of his generation, including Werner Herzog, Volker Schlöndorff and Wim Wenders, he dramatically altered the cinematic landscape by telling […]
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The 10 Best TV Episodes Directed By Famous Modern Filmmakers
Recently, there has been this great migration from the big screen to the small screen. Actors like Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson had a pretty bright time in the international spotlight with this year’s True Detective success. Steven Soderbergh directed a whole series this summer: The Knick, which aired on Cinemax. It’s like the lines […]
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20 Essential Films For An Introduction To New Mexican Cinema
“New Mexican Cinema” is a term for a series of Mexican films produced upon the 1990’s and the 2000’s after what is regarded as a generally declining period for Mexican Cinema; a period in which filmmakers like Arturo Ripstein, Jorge Fons and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo are regarded as heralds the upcoming Mexican Cinema would learn from. Those […]
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15 Great Films That Profoundly Reveal The Evilness in Humanity
The depiction of ‘evil’ is oddly usual in all forms of art. It is a rather unpleasant subject, yet people always seem to be fascinated by how complicated it is to explain evilness in human nature. It is a concept that has been analyzed through religious beliefs, social standards or various psychological states. It seems […]
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The 10 Best Ryan Gosling Movie Performances
Ryan Gosling is well known for carefully selecting his projects so it was a surprise to see him come out with two subpar efforts in 2013 before he announced a break from acting for fear of people being “sick of him” and because in his own words he had “lost all perspective” of what he […]
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The 10 Best Films That Profoundly Explore The Concept of Aging
Underneath the glamorous backdrop and saccharine settings of Hollywood lies the film industry’s narcissistic negligence of the very notion of ageing. This is not to imply that contemporary mainstream movies never attempt to portray the notion of old age, or indeed, the ageing body on-screen, but rather, it is possible to suggest that such representations […]