The connections between film and other forms of visual art including drawing, painting, and sculpture are limitless. Line, shape, form, color, texture, value, and space are the building blocks of art. All artworks, including film, utilize these elements to convey their message, but some works articulate elements in an especially poignant manner. The following list […]
Year: 2016
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15 Movies Based On True Stories That Are Completely Inaccurate
We have all heard the phrase “don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story”, and Hollywood has certainly taken that saying to heart. While plenty of interesting stories happen in real life, they are usually not dramatic enough for the big screen, so screenwriters take liberties with the story to spruce […]
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The 10 Best Iranian Films About Women
Not being situated in the culture of sexually objectifying women which dominates Hollywood, the films giving a voice to women in Iran provide a unique experience for the Western viewer. The poignantly ambivalent style of Iranian cinema also provides a profound cutting edge which won’t disappoint. Of course, everyone knows that Hollywood has a penchant […]
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The 15 Best Scenes in Akira Kurosawa Films
Born on March 23, 1910, Akira Kurosawa would eventually become the greatest contemporary Japanese director, and one of the most important filmmakers globally, with more than 30 films that won awards both in Japan and internationally. Kurosawa studied western civilization in depth, and embedded a plethora of its elements in the Japanese culture, in the […]
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The 15 Best Uses of Flashbacks in Cinema History
A flashback, or analepsis, is the classic narrative device that shows something set in a past time in relation to the present time of the narration. The flashback technique is commonly used in literature, television, cinema and in every form of narration. It interrupts the flow of the main sequence of events and opens a […]
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The 15 Best Uses of Symbolic Character Items in Contemporary American Movies
Objects tell a story in their own right. They don’t need to talk like Woody or Buzz, nor do they have to be injected or protruding from characters like Captain America or Wolverine. They just have to be themselves, to express the themes of the story, and ultimately draw in the spectator and attract them […]