There is no Academy Award, or any other type of cinematic award outside some of the more fanciful film festivals, given for a certain type of style. This is too bad, for if this were ever to take place, the first in line in terms of deserving it would be director Michael Mann. Chicago born […]
Author: Woodson Hughes
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7 Reasons Why “L.A. Confidential” is a Modern Masterpiece of American Cinema
In recent years, those who have an avid interest in vintage Hollywood films are inevitably drawn to two movements or periods in the history of American pictures. One is now tagged the “pre-code” era, the roughly five years of relaxed censorship at the dawn of sound in the very late 1920s and early 1930s. The […]
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7 Reasons Why “Dekalog” Is a Masterpiece Everyone Should See
When one makes a subject a vocation or merely an avocation, there is a danger that the individual may start feel that they pretty much know all there is to know about said subject. That danger seems to happen to those who love, study, and work in or with the film world to any great […]
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7 Reasons Why “Fargo” is a Masterpiece of Crime Cinema
There is an old adage which informs that the world worships the original. This may well be true, but sometimes it takes so long for the world to decide that the original is worth worshipping that the object of worship is either dead or as good as dead by the time the adulation takes place. […]
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7 Reasons Why “Se7en” Is The Best Serial Killer Movie of All Time
Many longtime movie genres such as musicals, westerns, melodramas and the like have, in recent times, either largely vanished from big screens or become marginalized. However, one genre that not only keeps going but seems to have grown in popularity and prestige is the mystery/suspense thriller. Something about the forces of good, or at least […]
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7 Reasons Why “Blue Velvet” Is a Surrealist Masterpiece
Every once in a very great while a film comes along that will be well and truly remembered. In fact, the film will be not only remembered but quoted, sworn by, and one which later such films will be judged against. Quite often these are not the films that crowds will be flocking to see, […]