“A movie I really love is Barton Fink… I feel like there’s so much in there, you could watch it again and again.” – Charlie Kaufman Lost for words For a fact one of the Coen brothers’ most sideways mash-ups, Barton Fink synthesizes entertainment industry satire, film noir, the surreal, Künstlerroman designs, and the […]
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All 6 Ben Wheatley Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic’s construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there’s nothing wrong with horror; there’s nothing wrong with romantic comedies.” – Ben Wheatley In a relatively short period of time English filmmaker Ben Wheatley has proven to be […]
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All 20 John Carpenter Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
“John Carpenter is a filmmaker who is unashamed to stay within the genres he loves (horror and science fiction) and who practices his trade like a master craftsman.” – Martin Scorsese Often, and always with affection and esteem, American filmmaker John Howard Carpenter (born January 16th, 1948 in Carthage, New York) is referred to as […]
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The 30 Best Comedies of the 1990s
Carrying on from Taste of Cinema’s recent list of the 30 Best Comedies of the 1980s is this similarly sentimental and purposefully playful look back at the 1990s. There’s a degree of idiosyncratic retrospection with the following list of populist funny films, each endearing and enjoyable in their own way. The 1990s saw, especially in […]
Pulling Focus: The Graduate (1967)
“Any good movie is filled with secrets.” – Mike Nichols Daydream nation So much of the comedy in Mike Nichols’ zeitgeist-defining second film The Graduate, feels effortless and equipped with an intellectual exactitude. When it opened in 1967 it was the sort of film that audiences found to be forward, fearless, and even a […]
Pulling Focus: Eraserhead (1977)
“Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.” – David Lynch In heaven everything is fine Defensibly David Lynch’s most forcible film, Eraserhead was the curious realization of more than five years of spasmodic shooting and postproduction assembly. Captured in furtive black-and-white, pushing arresting chiaroscuro lighting, and occupying a post-industrial wasteland backdrop, […]