Every filmmaker wants their output to be successful and well-adorned. Some might claim otherwise – and maybe they’re telling the truth – but in a career where money talks and acclaim generates notoriety and creates opportunities, hits are a sure-fire way to ensure sustainability in a business that remorselessly chews people up and spits them […]
Year: 2016
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The 10 Best Uses of Prince Songs in Movies
Prince had an unmistakable influence on music; that much is not debatable. What some might not know about is his work featured in and written for films. With original or cover versions of his songs making over one-hundred appearances in film and television over the past thirty-four years, and music written for films appearing in […]
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The 20 Best Movies About Obsessive Love
In his epic 252-minute film “L’Amour Fou”, Jacques Rivette follows the dissolution of a married couple, and the destructive way they try to stay together. As they destroy their own building, Rivette’s film shows what the concept of amour fou is about: loving too much. Obsessive love that leads to destruction is the main theme […]
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10 Great Movies from The 1990s That Should Get a Sequel
Hollywood is having a field day with making sequels and remakes to various films. Some work better than others, but sometimes you see a film and it’s potential hasn’t been realized in a single story. That or it has a great idea that has more possibilities to expand in a sequel. Remakes are a difficult […]
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The 10 Best Performances in a David Lynch Film
Despite the seeming impenetrability of much of David Lynch’s filmography, he is widely regarded as one of the most original and talented (and also divisive) filmmakers of the past forty years. Countless interpretations of his work have fuelled endless debates among fans, critics and casual observers alike. Is he an authentic genius or an intentional […]
Pulling Focus: The Night of the Hunter
“Dream, little one, dream Oh, the hunter in the night Fills your childish heart with fright Fear is only a dream So dream, little one, dream…” Those lines, from the score “Lullaby”, written by Walter Schumann, are profoundly unsettling, partially because a choir of children credulously sing them, but also because of the creepy-crawly context […]