Disney films and romantic comedies can take you to “happily ever after,” but they rarely ever show you what comes next. The twenty films listed here represent intriguing, provocative, and sometimes problematic views on marriage, from the bitterness of George and Martha in Mike Nichol’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, to the sci-fi births of […]
Author: Jose Gallegos
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20 Masterpieces of Luis Buñuel Every Film Fan Should See
Born in Spain and exiled for a majority of his career, Luis Buñuel created a filmography of works that ranged from surreal Parisian shorts to psychosexual Mexican features (and everything in between). His films commonly attacked institutions (religion, society, bourgeois culture) and reconstructed narrative language (often at the expense of spatial/temporal continuity). Buñuel’s direction and […]
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12 Essential Pedro Almodóvar Films You Need To Watch
Spain has a variety of unique filmmakers, but very few have resonated as profusely in the international film market as Pedro Almodóvar has. With 19 films under his belt, as well as awards from Cannes, Venice, and the Oscars, Almodóvar has crafted a reputation that is evoked by his often-used tagline: “A film by Almodóvar.” […]
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25 Of The Best Camp Films In Cinema History
Camp, as Susan Sontag noted, is an aesthetic sensibility. It is more complex than a “subjective” look because it is a codified way of looking. It appreciates the artificiality of art, inverts the aesthetics of beauty, and strips the work of its political/social/cultural context. My adoration of camp is not something that I have learned, […]
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The 20 Best Feminist Movies of All Time
There is a common misconception that all feminist films are about butch women who actively hate men and fight for equal rights/abortion laws/equal pay/etc. This one-dimensional stereotype doesn’t do justice to the complex elements that are at work in feminist films. For instance, feminist filmmakers are not only concerned with content, but they can also […]
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20 Essential French New Wave And Left Bank Films
Post-WWII France was a different environment for French cinema. Government funding and lighter cameras provided new opportunities for aspiring filmmakers, whose innovations – along with the general climate of European arthouse cinema – would help usher in a new modernist phase of filmmaking. Critics appropriated the term “Nouvelle Vague” – a phrase coined by L’Express […]