Na Hong-jin is one of those rare cases in South Korean cinema, where a filmmaker, despite having enormous success with his films, is not exactly eager to follow up with new work. In that fashion, he has shot just three films in eight years, with the previous one (“The Yellow Sea”) screening six years earlier. […]
Year: 2016
Pulling Focus: Fantastic Planet (1973)
“Cinema is showing more and more. It’s a paranoid, dictatorial cinema. And it’s saying less and less. We need a schizophrenic cinema.” – René Laloux And now we wonder where we are Will there ever be another full-length animated feature quite as wonderfully weird and endlessly imaginative as René Laloux’s underground French classic Fantastic […]
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Charles Chaplin vs Buster Keaton: Who Is The King of Silent Comedy?
Thomas H. Ince was responsible to conceive the production system adopted by Hollywood during its Golden Age. In 1912, “Inceville” was the first studio to test the following filmmaking method: a number of production units, each headed by a director, who had the responsibility of supervising a team of writers who delivered shooting scripts to […]
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The 10 Best Japanese Films of 2016
This was a very interesting year for Japanese cinema, for a number of reasons. In commercial terms, two were the most important productions of 2016: Toho’s reboot of the Godzilla franchise, for the third time in the kaiju’s history, and the release of the “Your Name” anime. The first one, titled “Godzilla Resurgence”, is one […]
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The 10 Best Movies About Jazz
Music is a wonderful form of art that has only been enriched with cinema, allowing the creation of on-screen musicals that are a lot more widely available than theatre performances, as well as the production of documentaries and biopics or simply fictitious stories about singers and musicians. One of the most fascinating and emotional music […]
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The 20 Best Dream Scenes in Movie History
The best quote in the severely underrated “The Limits of Control” by Jim Jarmusch is from Tilda Swinton’s character, when she says: “The best films are like dreams you’re never quite sure you’ve had.” The dreamlike qualities of cinema have been an argument for discussion since the inception of the medium; the very first filmmakers […]