Kim Jee-woon is probably the most successful filmmaker working in South Korea at the moment, with his films presenting a combination of artistry and entertainment rarely seen on screen. Kim was born in 1964 in Seoul and initially he worked in the theater, first as an actor and then as a director, before making the […]
Month: June 2017
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10 Movies You Should Watch If You Like Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is undoubtedly one of the most iconic and influential film makers of modern times. He has brought to the cinematic world an unmistakable auteur style that has rightfully been called Tarantinoesque. The adjective has been applied to many different films of the 21st century that seem to mimic the great director. Blood, violence, […]
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6 Reasons Why “The Fountain” is the 21st Century Answer to “Blade Runner”
There is a moment in Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” (1982) when Rick Deckard (a detective played with disgruntled bravado by Harrison Ford) stares at a photograph. Yet he doesn’t just stare: Using a computer, he enhances the image and studies it so intently that he looks like one of the movie’s legendarily obsessive fans—or a […]
Pulling Focus: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
“A film can be like a dream. It’s a fairy tale. It’s not beholden to rules or laws of the real world. I have no loyalty to the real world. Fuck the real world. Why would I make a film to try and show you what it’s like here?” – Ana Lily Amirpour Oh, […]
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The 20 Greatest Screenwriters of All Time
As we view a cinematic work, elements like narrative and plot structuring are indispensible to our judgment of it, even if we don’t notice their relevance right away. The way a story is told, an idea is explored and an artistic sensibility is expressed determines, to a large extent, our personal preferences when it comes […]
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The 10 Worst Movies of 2017 (So Far)
So many terrible movies, so little time. The film industry is large and mostly profitable; even ostensible garbage turns a profit on a long enough timeline. Due to this, there aren’t many notable “box office bombs” anymore–and anyway, that’s not a reliable measure of a film’s worth in general. As you’ll see on this list […]