Soon after finishing his film ”Viridiana” (1961), a film about a peculiar approach to the struggle to maintain the religiously regimented life of a nun contrasted with the possibility of a carnival world in upside down state (just like a feast of beggars), director Luis Buñuel said he would adapt the novel ”Là-bas” (1891) by Joris-Karl Huysmans (the title […]
Month: April 2015
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The 10 Best Movies About Dictators
Throughout history, all-powerful leaders and tyrants have shaped the world and its many empires. There have been many works of film and literature depicting life of the common man during these leaders’ reign and the suffering of the people. Less common is a film that directly addresses the lives of these dictators and their exploits […]
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The 25 Best Casting Choices in Comic Book Movies
There are times when characters leap right out of the pages of comic books and onto the silver screen as a direct result of the actors portraying them. There are the occasional miscasts, but more often than not, the actors are appropriate for their roles, sometimes being ideally cast. Casting choices in comic book films […]
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The 30 Most Overlooked American Movies of The 1990s
Whether your opinion is positive or negative towards it, there is no denying that the 1990’s were, at the very least, an interesting time for American movies. Audiences were cynical and hip enough to buy into the cool Tarantino style that bridged the indie and the mainstream world in film forever. But they also wanted […]
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The 20 Best French Films of The 21st Century
France has always been a trailblazer for European cinema. To begin with, it played a key role in the birth of film with the Lumière brothers’ shorts, while in the ‘20s it became prominent with the French Impressionist Cinema and in the late 50s a new generation of French directors arrived to turn everything upside […]
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12 Great Movies that Would Make Even Greater TV Shows
We are in a men’s public restroom. Where is it located? Apparently, it is placed somewhere in New Mexico. It has the same flicker of kind pity and wry loneliness all public washrooms have, but it is absent in the stinging smells of ravaged and ambulatory shit they all bear. Walter White is changing the […]