Minimalism has been around since the 1960s. Every form of art has, since then, explored the concepts of minimalism. The main idea of the minimalist art is to reduce the concept being conveyed to its core, to strip it of all the useless parts, and to end up with the idea in its purest form. […]
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The 10 Best Daniel Craig Movie Performances
Daniel Craig was one of two actors, after Timothy Dalton, whose acting credibility was as much a deciding factor in his casting, as well as his looks and public persona. But where Dalton´s films disappeared from U.S. cinemas almost as quickly as they arrived into them, Craig brought Bond four of the most successful films […]
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15 Great Tragedies Disguised as Horror Movies
“Beware the ides of March.” -William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (2.3:103) What exactly makes a tragedy tragic? Is it that is was inevitable or that it was avoidable? Is it the result of divine will or the result of human error? Many see tragedy as a dead art form, one which belongs to the Ancient Greeks […]
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30 Must-See Masterpieces of 1960s European Art Cinema
In the years just after the Second World War, cinema seemed to flourish in response to the new world order so fitfully being born. (Studying film history, it often seems that the worst of times stimulates the best in film makers.) It appeared that every nation of Europe and Asia affected by that conflict gave […]
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The 10 Best Australian Films of The 21st Century
Following on from the male ensemble landscape films came to represent Australian cinema during the 1970s and 80s and the subsequent reaction to them in the 1990s, Australian cinema has gradually branched out during the last fifteen years. A far more diverse cinema that has adopted genre film, albeit often in a social realist format, […]
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20 Films Banned by the Legion of Decency That Are Worth Your Time
With the advent of commercially marketed films, in the early 1900s, there were public calls from religious groups for government regulation of the film industry. According to the ACLU’s webpage on film censorship, beginning in 1909 a National Board of Censorship representing various Protestant denominations was established and called for the regulation of commercial films. […]