Love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’re here to stay. As long as they keep making money, so-called “found footage” films will continue to be produced, and really, who could blame those behind them? These movies are, generally speaking, cheap, quick to make, don’t necessarily require big stars, and have been, for the most part, reliably […]
Month: July 2014
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10 Essential Abel Ferrara Films You Need To Watch
If there’s a film director out there who has penetrated the noir vibe more so than anyone else in a unique way, it is Abel Ferrara. Exploring it in different ways from the edgy macabre flick The Addiction to the rugged city life characters you’ll find in films like Bad Lieutenant and King of New […]
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The 15 Best Al Pacino Movies You Need To Watch
Born in 1940, Alfredo “Al” Pacino was, along with Robert De Niro, at the forefront of a radically different style and approach to acting at the vanguard of New American Cinema in the early part of the Seventies. Namely, this style and approach was known as “the Method”, where an actor would go deep into […]
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10 Essential Jan Švankmajer Films Every Animation Fan Should See
The Czech Jan Švankmajer, who turns 80 later this year, is one of the greatest artists working in the film medium. After a background in black theater and puppetry, he made exclusively short films since the early sixties right up to the late eighties – roughly half his working life – becoming an undisputable master […]
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The 25 Best Films About Character’s Descent Into Madness
‘Whom God wishes to destroy, he first turns mad.’ For many years both director and viewer have shared an attraction to watching ongoing battles between characters and their subconscious, with the latter more often than not, the victor. Losing one’s mind is one of the most frightening prospects as within this; we lose our perception […]
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10 Films That Had The Biggest Influences On The Films of Wes Anderson
When explaining why he dropped out of film school, Paul Thomas Anderson said “My film making education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and mags…Film school is a complete con, because the information is out there is you want it.” […]