The horror genre seems destined to be eternally underrated, as its muscular nature and its impactful and often distasteful imagery seems to overshadow the complexities of a genre that has lived through the artistic tradition of humanity from the beginning of time. Horror is, in some cases, the best genre to analyze some of the […]
Year: 2016
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12 Great Filmmakers With Troubling Personalities
Everyone’s heard about the cliche of the genius artist and his troubling personality. These figures have a certain mythology about them, their eccentricities become our fascination. Some would even suggest that a certain antagonistic personality is required to create high art. It’s often a cliche when we find out that a certain artist was difficult […]
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10 Famous Movies Ruined By Studio Interference
Although directors are in charge of the actors and the crew when making a movie, the reality is that it is the studio that is in charge of a film production. Not every director is Steven Spielberg or Stanley Kubrick who gets final cut, so most directors are indeed directors for hire rather than auteurs. […]
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20 Weird Movies from Around the World You Might Not Have Seen
Whether it’s accidental or intentional, meaningful or just there for its own sake, weirdness is one of the reasons that make certain movies taste sweet, pleasantly sour, exotic, lasting or never-to-be-forgotten. Sergei Parajanov, David Lynch, Guy Maddin, Terry Gilliam, Andrzej Żuławski, Takashi Miike, Mamoru Oshii and Shinya Tsukamoto, amongst the others, could be certified as […]
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10 Action Stars Who Are Actually Great Actors
For every Doph Lundgreen or Arnold Schwarzenegger, there’s an action star that surprisingly kills it when he’s given the chance to do a more “serious” part. And then there’s the ones that actually find the space to be great within the very limited confines of the genre – the great, deep, brilliant action films being […]
Pulling Focus: Breaking the Waves (1996)
“Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves is a genuinely spiritual movie that asks ‘what is love and what is compassion?’” – Martin Scorsese In a broken dream Set in remote North-West Scotland’s Outer Hebrides of the 1970s is the ill-at-ease and heart-rending romance of Lars von Trier’s paralyzing (and, alas, polarizing) melodrama, Breaking the […]