One of the most difficult things for a screenwriter is to master the art of dialogue. If you suppress much of the information, things might be unexplained in the story, and if you put too much information in the dialogue, it will be seen as exaggerated or the audience may think you’re delivering to them […]
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10 Great Movies That Left The Oscars Empty-Handed
Every year, many cinephiles, as soon as they learn the Oscar nods of the year, start cheering for their personal favorites until Oscar night arrives. However, many, many times, the movie chosen by most of the critics or the audience’s favorite ends up not winning Best Picture. Remember when Orson Welles’s “Citizen Kane” lost the […]
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All 6 James Gray Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
James Gray is a film director and screenwriter born in New York City on April 14, 1969. When he was a film student, he directed a short feature called “Cowboys and Angels”, attracting attention to his work. A few years later, he directed his first feature film, “Little Odessa”, which won the Silver Lion at […]
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10 Directors Who Started Their Careers With a Masterpiece
Making a great film as a career start is something that could suddenly launch a director to stardom and maybe guarantee the funding of his second film (or even the third and fourth). In film history, many acclaimed directors started their careers with movies that could easily be considered masterpieces and, among them, plenty could […]
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10 Movies You Should Watch If You Liked “Oldboy”
The second part of Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy, “Oldboy” stars Min-sik Choi as Oh Dae-su, a man who is kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years without any apparent reason. When he is released all those years later, he is given clothes, money, and a cell phone, still not knowing why he was incarcerated. Searching for […]
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All 7 Asghar Farhadi Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian writer and director born on May 7, 1972. In his teenage years he joined the Youth Cinema Society of Isfahan, where he started making short films in 8mm and 16mm. In 1998 he received his bachelor’s degree in theater from University of Tehran’s School of Dramatic Arts and a few […]