Call it a guilty pleasure. Call it the virtue of a lifetime watching movies. Call it inexplicable drunkenness. Call it stupidity. All of the movies on this list have somehow woven their way into my life—my cinematic life, anyway—for good or ill. Most of the films on this list can be found looping themselves in […]
Year: 2016
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The 10 Best Dramatic Movies by Woody Allen
Woody Allen debuted as a director in 1966 with What’s Up, Tiger Lily?, a comical reworking and re-dubbing of a Japanese spy movie; as peculiar as the original original project was, it was also heavily modified by the studio without asking permission to Allen. This was the last time he directed a film on which […]
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The 10 Best Movies With Only One Actor
Actors can make or break a movie, whether there are huge star-studded ensemble casts, or just a couple of quality actors who let the script shine for itself. There are not many films that manage to thrive on one actor carrying the entire film alone. Andy Warhol experimented with the concept in his 1963 anti-film […]
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The 15 Best Actors of Our Generation
This is a common topic of discussion among cinephiles: who are the greatest thespians working right now? A comprehensive list of such actors would have to include living legends like De Niro, Pacino, Caine and so on, of course, and while there should be recognition and appreciation of the talent of such brilliant professionals, how […]
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The 20 Best Movies Shot on Digital Formats
In the past twenty years, a groundswell of films being produced digitally has solidified into a viable-if not currently dominant-means of creating cinema. Beginning with rogue European Directors and ending up in thousands of American theaters nationwide, digital films have etched out a place amongst the landscape of international cinema. The technology is so pervasive […]
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The 10 Best Films of The 21st Century Shot by Female Cinematographers
There’s a reason that only 14 of the approximately 350 people in the legendary American Society of Cinematographers are women, but it’s not a very good one. If the business has enough trouble in giving opportunities to women directors, then the trouble gets bigger when it comes to a job that involves a certain physical […]