“The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.” ― André Bazin There is clearly a connection between sensuality and nature, so that cinema finds a vast palette with which to convey passion and desire. Sensuality is all about creating and building tension, and thrives on atmosphere, subtext, and evocative […]
Month: May 2018
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All 22 Ryan Gosling Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
When people talk about “the death of cinema,” one of the key things they usually attribute it to is the idea that the movie star as we used to know it is now meaningless. With the advent of social media, the decline of people watching talk shows live on TV, and movie stars feeling too […]
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The 25 Darkest Movies of All Time
This list/article is the third in a series attempting to argue that for cinema to be and to be taken seriously as an art form, it must forgo and move beyond Hollywood-like vis-ual-based ways of meaning-formation, understanding, etc. into actor-, face-, dialogue-, voice-, emotion-, body-, character-, feeling,-, psychology-, and tone-based ones. Readers are strongly advised […]
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All 26 Ron Howard Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
In June 2017, Lucasfilm’s president, Kathleen Kennedy, finally did what many cinephiles were hoping would eventually happen: assign one of the Disney owned Star Wars films to a powerhouse filmmaker. Throughout 40 years of Star Wars fandom, auteurs like Guillermo del Toro, David Fincher, Steven Spielberg, and David Cronenberg had come close to the job, […]
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10 Great Movies That Will Teach You Life Lessons
Here is a list of 10 films that won’t teach anyone how to act or how to perceive life. The films presented in this list are no moral tales or films that are “sending a message.” Instead, these films present reality in such a way that each viewer perceives them with a different meaning, as […]
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The 10 Best Reviewed Movies of Cannes 2018
The Cannes Film Festival has just ended, the awards had been given, and here we go with the reviews about the movies that premiered there, in competition or in one of the numerous screenings in the most important film festival of the planet. First of all, let’s define the research fields: the outcome is based […]