The buzz around Lars von Trier’s provocative new film “The House that Jack Built” and the mass audience exodus at its 2018 Cannes premiere has made massive cinema walkouts a topical subject. When the news from this year’s Cannes Film Festival flooded in, a friend of mine asked me with sincere wonder, “Are really people […]
Month: June 2018
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The 10 Most Perfect Movies of The 21st Century
Perfection is subjective when it comes to art. A mathematical equation can only have one answer, no matter what those Facebook shareable quizzes tell you. When it comes to art, it is all about your interpretation. For action buffs, a perfect film may be the one that exhilarates them the most. For comedy enthusiasts, the […]
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10 Great 2018 Movies You May Not Have Seen
Movies are being released so fast all around the world that it is often very difficult to keep up with them. It is even harder to keep up with more independent films that aren’t constantly appearing on billboards or on social media. So it is no wonder that every year there will be hundreds of […]
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10 Movies That Ruined Famous Directors’ Careers
The opportunities to direct Hollywood films are few and far in between. But often, a prospective indie director is plucked after a couple critical hits and thrust into the driver’s seat of a major blockbuster. Just look at Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Jon Watts, or Josh Trank, and that’s just the “J’s”. And when some of them […]
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10 Directors Whose First Movies Were Their Best
Anybody that has ever directed a film will tell you it is one of the most difficult things they have ever done. Stanley Kubrick mentioned it is “like trying to write ‘War and Peace’ in a bumper car…” There are some people who started out swinging for the fences with their directorial debut. This list […]
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The 25 Most Intelligent Movies of All Time
This list/article is the fourth in a series arguing that for cinema to-be-and-to-be-taken-seriously as an art form, it must forgo and move beyond Hollywood-like visual-based ways of meaning-formation/understanding into actor-, face-, dialogue-, voice-, emo-tion-, body-, character-, feeling,-, behavior/psychology-, and tone-based ones. Readers are strongly advised to read my three previous articles, especially (though by no […]