At what point in time does a form of expression become art? And who decides when it does? Perhaps it all entails having those working in a medium achieving a certain level of skill and expertise in rendering products in that medium and using it to express some cogent idea. Having many do this over […]
Author: Woodson Hughes
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30 Must-See Masterpieces of 1950s European Art Cinema
The medium of film can encompass many aspects. It can be simply entertaining and very commercial. It can also be deeply probing and highly artistic. This is not to say that any of the types of film making can’t be without a high level of craft and skill. However, the type of film created for […]
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The 20 Best European Films of The 2010s (So Far)
After over a half century of Europe dominating the initially nascent, then fully mature, art houses of the world and then being a major factor in the video-film era, where does the continent and its film makers stand in the second decade of the 21st Century? Well, the world had turned several times and new ways […]
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30 Great European Films of The 2000s You Shouldn’t Miss
The more things change the more they stay the same. As the 21st Century dawned film once again became an international medium. However, unlike the 50s and 60s, the cinema scene was truly international. Not only were Europe and Japan still fixtures in this cinema world view but places which had not been majorly heard from […]
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The 30 Best European Films of The 1990s
Every ending affords a new beginning. The classic era of the European art house film finally came to a complete end in the 1980s with the death and/or retirement of most of the key figures of that time and with the changes in technology which doomed the traditional art house as a theater going experience […]
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20 Must-See Masterpieces of 1980s European Art Cinema
As the 1980s dawned in the cinematic world it would turn out to be, to paraphrase Dickens, the best and worst of times. Though the era of expansive thought and experimentation looked to be over and many a great master of European cinema ended or wound down their careers, there were still some golden moments […]