Remember when filmmakers created scares and suspense by not showing the viewer everything? The end result of many suspenseful scenes existed primarily in the viewer’s imagination. Think Hitchcock and Clouzot, for instance. But film fans over the years became more sophisticated and jaded. They wanted to rely on more than just their imaginations. Sub-genres began […]
Month: May 2015
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10 Movies That Had The Biggest Influences On The Films Of Guillermo Del Toro
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 if you want it.” […]
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10 Great Documentaries Dealing With The Subject of Death
Bearing in mind that documentary cinema represents events established as indexically real, it is comprehensible that this filmic form is permanently seen as ethically charged and deeply provocative. Death, as the ultimate void hampering our innate believe in immortality, seems to produce a cinematic contradiction. On the one hand, we are confronted by an overrepresentation […]
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25 Great Movies With The Most Effective Uses Of Voice-Over Narration
Voice-over narration is a technique commonly used in film, theatre or television productions in which a voice, that is generally non-diegetic, occurs in the course of a work’s narrative. Usually uttered by a character from within the work, voice-over typically aims to elucidate a story’s development and mise-en-scène, thus creating elements of structure and continuity. […]
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18 Great Films That Make Remarkable Use of The Color Red
Red is probably the most charged of all primary colours. Reminiscent of roses, blood and fire and emblematic of love, passion and lust, colour red accompanies all of these things and situations in life that are intense, beautiful or mysterious. It is as known, as it is intelligible, that all colours function in a way […]
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The 18 Best Teen Angst Movies of the 1980s
The eighties were perhaps the most prolific decade for teen films since The Golden Age, the 1950’s. James Dean’s effortless “cool guy” vibe and the longing for a teenage rebellion was finally brought back to the big screen. And for once, these films didn’t belittle teenagers nor portray the struggle they lived seem petty or foolish. Teenagers were […]