“A complex and ultimately moving on the privileges of victimhood and the nuances of what it means to suffer for love.” – Stephanie Zacharek, Village Voice Love’s melody lost The Duke of Burgundy, which is a reference to the hamearis lucina butterfly found only in Europe, artfully details the love story of two lesbian […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
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6 Reasons Why “The Fountain” is an Underrated Masterpiece
American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has never been the kind of writer-director who shies away from controversial qualities in his films, or to sidestep surreal flourishes as well as story elements that may confound or confuse audience expectations, and his third and arguably most ambitious feature, The Fountain (2006), exemplifies such considerations. A psychedelic science-fiction fantasy […]
Pulling Focus: Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
“We came for a good time, not for a long time.” – Willoughby (played by Wyatt Russell) Let the good times roll A loyal and warm-hearted love letter to youth and the impermanent magic hour that glimmers and glints just ahead of adulthood, Everybody Wants Some!! is the pleasantly meandering kind of picture that […]
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All 13 Jim Jarmusch Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“I don’t know where I fit in. I don’t feel tied to my time.” – Jim Jarmusch Now, I have this on some authority that if you look up “cool” in the dictionary you’ll find a picture of the casually grinning, messily coiffed, silver-maned American indie filmmaker James Robert “Jim” Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953). […]
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The 25 Best Cult Movies of the 1970s
Part of the attraction with films designated with cult status is that they are decidedly different and much more provocative than mainstream populist fare. The cult film experience differs from conventional cinema by appealing to unique sensibilities, be it the counterculture, genre films, or niche audiences that joyfully zero in on taboo content and proscribed […]
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All 29 Brian De Palma Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“I am constantly standing outside and making people aware that they are always watching a film… At the same time, you are deeply and emotionally involved in it.” – Brian De Palma A controversial and towering figure in American filmmaking, Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is also one of the most divisive […]