Something that has been a growing trend among movies during this past decade is the fact that they have been more and more inspired by movies from the 1970s and 80s. This is because of how filmmakers today grew up in the 80s and are drawing off of their nostalgia. If you think about it […]
Month: February 2016
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10 Great Forgotten Films Featuring Award Winning Actors
Any time someone mentions an actors’ name, the following reaction is to think of the movie that made them well known. If someone mentions Al Pacino, you’ll think of The Godfather. Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. James Dean? Rebel Without a Cause. In the cases of the three movies listed, it’s easy to […]
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20 Under-the-Radar Movies That May Become Future Classics
Every ten years, the British film magazine Sight and Sound asks critics around the world to choose their ten favourite films of all time. Everyone is familiar with the old warhorses that regularly show up in this poll – your Citizen Kanes, your Tokyo Story. But we forget that it was not always thus. Time […]
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The 10 Best Recent Documentaries About Filmmakers
The history of film can’t go forward without having looking at the past. Understanding a way a great director made a masterwork can give a small insight to their mind, and can help us to unveil the mystery of a film. Documenting a filmmaker gives a way of making history through their medium, and gives […]
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The 15 Most Memorable Songs Used In Quentin Tarantino Movies
Music in films can be very manipulative. It can make all the difference to the scene it is accompanying. What could potentially have been an unremarkable scene becomes so much more due to the fantastic music in the background. Although composers and artists are the ones who create the actual music, it is the filmmaker […]
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The 10 Best Performances in a David Fincher Film
Since the early 1990’s American director David Fincher has masterfully engineered a number of stylish and thought-provoking crime thrillers, complex dramas, and even a noteworthy biopic, rarely missing the mark in his impressive career choices. Initially inspired to go into filmmaking by 1969’s dramatic Western “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Fincher started out in […]