Before the internet and YouTube, the ways that you became informed about cult cinema was from reading books, fanzines, and watching some beat up VHS copies of the movies. There were many great books that came out during this time, including a trilogy from author Danny Peary and a guidebook from Videohound dealing with cult […]
Month: May 2016
Pulling Focus: Meek’s Cutoff (2010)
“You don’t know much about women, do you Stephen Meek?” – Emily Tetherow (played by Michelle Williams) Go West, young ma’am “Oregon Territory, 1845” reads a rough-hewn hand-drawn title card that opens Meek’s Cutoff (2010), the fourth feature by 52-year-old, Miami-born filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (her sixth, Certain Women, hits select North American theaters later […]
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The 10 Best Performances within the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Twelve films in and with the thirteenth hit the theaters recently, there’s no better a time to look back at one of the most impressive feats in modern cinema, aka the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and talk about the best of the best performances that have kept this ambitious interwoven world together. 10. Samuel L. […]
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The 10 Best Written Tarantino Movie Characters
If you’ve ever visited a film school or “lazy towns” (as they are commonly known), you’ve seen them. Hundreds of guys directing and writing their own “cool” short films. Funny dialogue, a bunch of guns, and pools of blood swarm the screens of all the editing rooms in the building, until every production is indistinguishable […]
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The 10 Best Movies Influenced by The Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher, metaphysician, psychologist and aesthetician was a formidable influence upon the consciousness of 19th century Europe. His ideas have had a profound impact on the way we continue to relate ourselves to the world, and how our experiences shape our understanding of the nature of our symbolic representation of our innate […]
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30 Great Surreal Movies That Are Worth Your Time
The Surrealist Movement was born in the 1920s with the aim to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality”. Eventually, it would seep into cinema as well, with Luis Buñuel acknowledged as the first filmmaker to embrace the cultural movement that was taking place. His collaboration with Salvador Dali in 1929, titled Un […]