David W. Griffith was the pioneering director who invented and introduced the original grammar of cinema as we know it today, but there are many who took the principles and developed them into an art form, and formed the grammar of cinema in different but influential ways. 1. Alfred Hitchcock It’s no wonder Alfred […]
Month: September 2017
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5 Reasons Why “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is a Horror Masterpiece
Over the summer we lost a legend in the world of horror cinema when film director Tobe Hooper passed away at the age of 74. The response on Twitter coming from Hollywood all echo a similar theme; from John Carpenter, Eli Roth, James Wan and Stephen King, everyone praised the director as a kindhearted individual […]
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10 Best Picture Worthy Movies That Didn’t Get a Single Oscar Nomination
Ordinary People over Raging Bull. How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane. Spotlight over Mad Max: Fury Road (seriously, but that’s for another list). It’s not news that the Oscars often make decisions that some consider to be… a little wide of the mark. Again and again, films held to be classics have been […]
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All 14 Krzysztof Kieślowski Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
If one were to compare all the greatest European directors, Krzysztof Kieslowski would clearly stand out as being the only true legatee, capable of bringing the same amount of rigorous philosophical discussion to European cinema, as Andrei Tarkovsky, Robert Bresson, and Ingmar Bergman brought to European cinema in their respective eras. Kieslowski began his career […]
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The 10 Best New Movies To Watch in Fall 2017
There may only be four months left of 2017, but there are still plenty of films to look forward to. Winter sees the release of eagerly awaited films such as The Last Jedi, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Coco, Bright and The Greatest Showman. However, before that, there is an abundance of great films due […]
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7 Reasons Why “Synecdoche, New York” is an Underrated Masterpiece
I’ve always considered weird the fact that a lot of people talk about cinema as if it was an entity separated from reality, operating on its own set of rules, foreign to everything else. A good character must have this or that trait, audiences want action above all else, an efficient script needs to have […]