Our interest in a filmmaker’s career sometimes makes us want to watch more content about them than just their movies and, with that in mind, here is a selection of 10 amazing documentaries about great filmmakers that you should definitely watch. As usual, it is never too late to remember that many things interfere in […]
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10 Famous Movies That Stole Plots From Other Films
The concept of pure and untarnished originality is a mythical one. No film has ever existed in a vacuum, completely free of influence. That would require the filmmaker to have absolutely no idea of the medium he is working in. Instead, movies have constantly been inspired by the ones that have come before them, as […]
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The 10 Best Movie Props of All Time
The traditional definition of a theatrical prop is; any object that a character interacts with during the action of a scene. In film, props are that and yet so much more. A prop can be a small plot point, a central plot element, an offhand item or even a character in itself. Throughout film history, […]
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The 10 Best Movies About Memory Loss
Memories are the tiny frail threads that hold our selves together. Unstable, unreliable, and often painful, they are glimpses into a past that is gone forever, or rewritten to change the present. Some memories never existed at all, while the rest are just copies of what once lived. They are ghosts, and we are the […]
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7 Reasons Why “Incendies” Is Denis Villeneuve’s Overlooked Masterpiece
Denis Villeneuve’s movie “Incendies” was his cinematic breakthrough and the last film in French that he made; it earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. It is based on a play by Wajdi Mouawad, a Lebanese-Canadian who, among other projects, produced a trilogy of Greek plays by Sophocles. “Incendies” is a journey […]