It can be said that when an actor works on a Quentin Tarantino film, the director makes them give a performance quite different from any of their previous works (at least in most cases). Whether it be a big Hollywood name or an unknown indie actor, Tarantino manages to create a powerful and quite peculiar […]
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30 Great European Films of The 2000s You Shouldn’t Miss
The more things change the more they stay the same. As the 21st Century dawned film once again became an international medium. However, unlike the 50s and 60s, the cinema scene was truly international. Not only were Europe and Japan still fixtures in this cinema world view but places which had not been majorly heard from […]
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10 Movie Adaptations That Missed The Point of Their Source Material
For this list, the focus is on films that have lost track of the tone, the soul or simply the point of the original. Cinema is a different idiom to the written word, to theatre and to television, so of course, some changes must be made. Even when re-making an existing film, shooting in a […]
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The 15 Best French Films Set in Paris
Paris is the perfect city for filmmaking. The City of Lights has many souls, and as easy as it is to stereotype it, those who appreciate it know that its spirit cannot be reduced to a single definition. Filmmakers have often chosen Paris as the best city to set their stories, and this has led […]
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10 Movies That Are Both Philosophically Profound and Visually Stunning
In this list, I present 10 films that are both philosophically profound and visually stunning. It is difficult to choose just 10, and many of the directors whose films make it onto this list deserve more than just one mention. However, I limit myself to one film per author. I welcome suggestions or additions. […]
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The 25 Best Sci-Fi Movies of The 1970s
For science fiction cinema the 1970s, particularly the films pre-1977––when Star Wars was released and shifted the popcorn paradigm for better or worse––was a golden age. Diverse filmmakers like Woody Allen, Robert Altman, John Boorman, John Carpenter, and Andrei Tarkovsky, as prime examples, took great risks, combined arthouse urges tempered with genre tropes, and cultural […]