‘Slow’ can be a relative term when it comes to films. Those who are more attuned to watching Hollywood blockbusters will no doubt call even films by Alexander Payne or Clint Eastwood slow. It wouldn’t be too much of a surprise to see even those who are familiar with American indie cinema calling European arthouse […]
Month: May 2015
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The 20 Greatest Documentary Filmmakers of All Time
Documentary filmmakers come in a variety of shapes and forms. By their nature they are working outside of a system built for ascension, career and profit. There are no apprenticeships and you’re lucky if you are getting paid. They are making films out of passion for a specific topic and until recent decades hardly thinking […]
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10 Great Movies That Best Utilize Available & Natural Lighting
There’s a skeptical notion in the world of filmmaking that affiliates the use of available or natural light as being cheap, the filmmakers lazy, or that the project was rushed – because the filmmakers were being cheap… and lazy. And there is, alas… some merit for those reservations. Because the more equipment a filmmaker carries […]
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30 Essential Films for an Introduction to Italian Cinema
Italy has been involved in film since the origins in the early 1900s and were highly influential to the development of cinema with the Futurist movement. Unfortunately due to the Fascist restrictions on culture during the 1920s and 30s the output of film was weaker. In the 1940s, however, that the Italians made a significant […]
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12 Great Character Entrances and What They Can Teach You about Film Narrative
“They should appear like spongy jellyfish: Stinging and mortal at first touch” – Roger Ebert used to say about character introductions. There is something alluring in the way we recognize ourselves in the tantrums of some characters, in the way we let ourselves be destroy by the compass of their eyes. You can´t really put […]