Since the birth of cinema the average shot length (ASL) of films has been getting shorter and shorter, and when we talk about ASL (if you don’t know) we’re talking about how long a shot lasts before cutting. The lower the ASL, the more separate shots a film contains. To give you a practical example, […]
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13 Great Movies That Will Make You Completely Depressed
This is a very subjective list which does not aspire to a universal or official cataloging of its topic. It’s an assembly of movies which compiles some features and peculiarities which provoke a certain feeling of despair in the spectator. This includes striking emotions which haunt the viewer before the film is a memory. There […]
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The 15 Greatest Nicole Kidman Movie Performances
Only a small number of actresses make as diverse and bold range of choices as Nicole Kidman. Her elegance, fearlessness and passion bring an incredible mix of old Hollywood with modern sensibility. She has spent the last two and a half decades swinging between extremely brave (e.g. she has never used a body double for […]
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20 Great Movies about The Complexity of Women
In the last few years we have seen the number of complains about the lack of good female roles increase. Audiences are not satisfied with the archetypes, that once were considered the norm, for portraying women in cinema and are looking for movies in which the woman isn’t exclusively an accessory. Recently there has been […]
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The 17 Steps of The Hero’s Journey and Their Manifestations in Film
Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a fantastic work of anthropology. In it he outlines the idea of “The Hero’s Journey”, which has 17 “steps”. Campbell postulates that all cultures share these 17 fundamental steps in their mythologies and stories. Storytellers have used Campbell’s ideas to make some of the most iconic […]
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16 Great Movies That Show You Why 2010 Is a Big Year for Asian Cinema
2010 was a great year for Asian cinema with excellent efforts such as Takashi Miike’s old school samurai film 13 Assassins, Korean thrillers including I Saw the Devil and The Man From Nowhere, and the Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. There are also some more obscure films worthy of […]