If the 1990s was the modern heydey of the indie film, with many a new voice emerging from an era of renaissance, the 2000s represented the period in which American filmmakers began to churn out indie films in factory-like abundance. They became cheaper to make, a fact which yielded endless independent production companies were sprouting […]
Month: April 2015
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12 Great French Surrealist Films That Are Worth Your Time
France is considered to be responsible for influencing the surrealist movement due to surrealism emerging from Dada art in Paris during WWI. The goal of surrealist art was to liberate imagination and the subconscious mind. In the early 1920s, surrealists sought out a new art form that was separate from paintings and sculptures and discovered […]
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25 Essential DVD/Blu-ray Releases from The Criterion Collection
Cinephiles know Criterion as a company specializing in film restoration and creating definitive editions of significant films. First they were curators of classic cinematic treasures on laserdisc, then DVD, and now Blu-ray. Criterion has been the respected leader in its field since the 1980s. It is considered an honor for any film to be bestowed […]
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15 Great Films That Explore Sadomasochistic Desire
“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.” – Marquis de Sade “The more you hurt me as you have just done, the more you fire my heart and inflame my senses.” – Leopold von Sacher-Masoch In the 19th century, Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Sigmund Freud were pioneers in the field of […]
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The 10 Best Christopher Walken Movies You Need To Watch
Having featured in more than one hundred films in a career spanning over sixty years, Christopher Walken has made a prolific and eclectic career out of playing intense and often slightly off-kilter or plain oddball characters. Born Ronald Walken on March 31st 1943, Walken started his rise to fame as a child actor, appearing in […]
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10 Great Food Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Food is the music of love, as a noted playwright once tried to say. The worship of food is an orgy for the senses and our adulation of gastronomy has only intensified over the years. Food has obsessed artists since the invention of paint – think of all those Roman murals with their ‘food equals […]