There are few directors in film history as polarizing as Peter Greenaway. Initially trained as a painter, Greenaway has a terrific mind for visual framing and composition. This inspired stylistic mind and passion for details make his filmography like no other, with each frame a calculated painting, and sometimes several paintings in one. Not only […]
Month: June 2017
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All 8 Harry Potter Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Warner Brothers’ biggest cash cow has the edge over most franchises because it’s based on such strong source material. Whatever your opinion on J.K. Rowling’s writing, no one can deny her impressive world building and well thought-out storylines that provided the series with a consistency rarely seen in a franchise. Beginning in 1997 with the […]
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7 Reasons Why “Primer” Is The Most Cerebral Time Travel Movie of All Time
Primer is an independent movie produced by first-time director Shane Carruth on that most micro of micro-budgets, $7000. After winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2004 it recouped a modest 200x return on investment at the box office. But the temporally-displaced fun was only beginning. Primer’s DVD release coincided with the early days […]
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10 Totally Awesome 2010s Movies You May Have Missed
The New Tens continue the trend of experimentation, genre mixing, and innovations that the film world began to heavily produce in the 2000s, and with the new and unseen quickly becoming de rigeur for emerging filmmakers to test their mettle and stand out among the increasingly crowded field of indie filmmakers, this decade has been […]
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10 Brilliant 2016 Film Scores Not Nominated by the Academy
As the past showed, the Academy isn’t averse to skipping brilliant works of art in order to give the award to the most obvious or least deserved choice. In particular, the category of Best Original Score provides an opportunity to pay tribute to artistically valuable and one-of-a-kind works simply because the soundtrack shapes the movies […]
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6 Reasons Why “Holy Motors” is a Surreal Masterpiece
Surrealist Luis Buñuel once stated, “Film seems to be the involuntary imitation of the dream.” This of course is of particular interest when it comes to Leos Carax’s 2012 French-German film Holy Motors, in which the French film director uses a metaphysical dreamscape to channel life as it is experienced while deliberately calling attention to […]