The term “coming-of-age” is a young person’s transition from being a child to being an adult, according to Wikipedia. A coming-of-age film shows the viewers this transformation. It is a standard way of telling the story through the eyes of an average teenager from an average family, going to an average school. It is considered […]
Year: 2016
Pulling Focus: Hiroshima, Mon Amour
“In my film, time is shattered.” – Alain Resnais In search of lost time Wow. How enticing it is to consider and suppose that the cinema of the subconsciousness and of memory barely held breath before 1959, when French film director Alain Resnais intimately accepted the subject matter with fascinating affection in his first […]
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10 Actors Who Won an Oscar and ‘Disappeared’
Let’s not kid ourselves, winning an Oscar is a life changing experience. As wonderfully portrayed in George Cukor’s A Star is Born, an individual actor can go from a virtual nobody to an overnight sensation within seconds. Yes, the Academy Awards seldom reflect actual quality, and yes the AMPAS (especially today) fail to represent the […]
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The 10 Best Quotes in a Kevin Smith Movie
If you are offended easily, this is not the list for you. Kevin Smith entered into the mainstream in 1994 along with some guy named Tarantino. His film, “Clerks”, was made on a shoestring budget of only $27,000 mostly by maxing out credit cards, selling his comic book collection and calling in lots of favors. […]
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10 Essential Films for an Introduction to Third Cinema
Of the major film movements that have been conceived so far, Third Cinema is currently one of the most generally overlooked. Its body of work isn’t as well known or as thoroughly dissected in film school classrooms as say French New Wave or German Expressionism, but historically and aesthetically speaking, it should be considered just […]
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25 Great Cult Films That Are Rip-offs of Popular Movies
Anytime that a movie gets released and is popular or a huge success, some smaller studio is going to try and take advantage of that success and release its own movie that is somewhat similar. It has happened throughout cinematic history but wasn’t more prevalent than during the drive-in, exploitation, and VHS rental craze. Low-budget […]