The beauty of acting is that there is rarely an outright awful actor, because any performer can have good roles and bad roles. Even the actors you may like the least will have a performance that will catch you off guard and will, perhaps, even win you over. In that same breath, the opposite effect […]
Month: March 2017
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10 Living Filmmakers Who Never Won Palme d’Or (But Should)
It’s really odd thinking that the Cannes International Film Festival, known for rewarding the very best films in the world, has never awarded some important directors with the biggest prize, Palme d’Or. This list includes artists who have made impact with their films, have been recognized -some of them might even have written cinematic history- […]
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5 Reasons Why “Road to Perdition” is an Overlooked Masterpiece
Sam Mendes’ directorial debut American Beauty was nominated for eight Oscars in 2000 and won five of them (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography). It was a shockingly brilliant showing for a first-time director. When Mendes followed it up with the graphic novel adaptation Road to Perdition, starring Tom […]
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All 13 Stanley Kubrick Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Stanley Kubrick’s obsessive level of detail was both a blessing and a curse, in that the films he made rank as some of the best of all time, but there are only thirteen of them. Nevertheless, his relatively scarce output has lead to a relative consistency between each film that few other directors can match. […]
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The 10 Best Scenes in Andrei Tarkovsky Films
In the words of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” Needless to say, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky is considered to be one of the most prolific and […]