Now that the sun has set on 2016, Taste of Cinema offers up our favorites from the exciting year that was. Admittedly, I was somewhat under the impression that 2016 had been a modest, even disappointing year for cinema. But, even a cursory glance down the list, and seeing such a miscellany of approaches, particularly […]
Month: January 2017
Pulling Focus: Animal Crackers (1930)
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don’t know.” – Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx) Animal Crackers, the second feature starring the Marx Brothers, released in 1930, is over eighty years old now, and it still leaves me hard-pressed to find many films that afford […]
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The 10 Best Non-Noir Movies Influenced By German Expressionism
German Expressionism was one of the most influential artistic movements of the early XXth century, especially when it comes to cinema. Quintessentially, its artists attempt to seek a deeper meaning in reality, sacrificing realism for the sake of the emotional effects of exaggerated, distorted forms. This way, the subjective perception of life takes control over […]
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When Surrealism Invaded Film: The Cinematic Contributions of Salvador Dalí
Once, in a Paris Café, a group of surrealist artist lead by André Breton was reunited, they had concealed and came to a decision – they had decided to expel Salvador Dalí from the surrealist movement. Many argue that this was due to the artist’s neutral political positions (since surrealist artist had begun embracing leftist […]