The late 1960s and the entire 1970s were an era in cinema where Hollywood seemed to reign supreme. Dominating the box offices with layered and artistic efforts that ultimately gave way to the blockbuster, forever changing cinema. However, while Hollywood found its second wind, the world kept turning. Amid the Cold War clashes between the […]
Month: December 2015
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10 Movies That Ruined Famous Filmmakers’ Careers and Reputations
While some of the directors manage to go their entire career with their reputation and popularity intact, many of their counterparts, even the skilled ones, are not always so lucky. Despite strong and promising starts to their career, one major misstep, or in some cases a series of failures, can cost a director their legacy, […]
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The 20 Most Visually Stunning Latin American Films of The 21st Century
Latin culture is rich, beautiful and full of many traditions that comes from years of European colonization and an even richer native culture, making it a very difficult culture to understand but also very interesting to analyze and explore. The Latin art is the perfect presentation of the many contrasts of its culture. In painting, […]
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10 Great Movies That Question The Nature of Human Perception
Film is a very perceptive medium. It utilizes more senses in recording and communicating than others and thus it perceives more. Yet this also makes cinema the most deceptive of mediums. Its artifice is cloaked in pretensions of authenticity. Its range of perceptions, its imerssiveness, leaves its audience with tremendous blind spots. This qualifies film to investigate the limits […]
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30 Great Japanese Pink Films You Shouldn’t Miss
Pink film is one of the most important genres that Japan has given to world cinema. Generally all types of feature films that include erotic elements are known as pink films. However, they can’t be compared to those base and two-bit B-grade films from other countries, and that is the main element that specializes and distinguishes […]
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The 10 Best-Written American Movies of The Last Decade
We always tend to think of film as a director’s medium, and while that’s largely true, there’s another force that can fundamentally shape a the direction a movie takes too: the writer. This much-maligned presence doesn’t always get the credit they deserve, but although a great director will shape a screenplay as they see fit, […]