Every artist is apt to dip into the well of poetry and prose for inspiration, but sometimes a direct visual reference is desired; a pastiche of the masters that came before. As great filmmakers have inspired modern painters, so to have great painters influenced the mise en scène of directors and cinematographers throughout the history […]
Year: 2018
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All 20 Roman Polanski Movies Ranked From Worst To Best
Roman Polański is one of the most distinguished Polish directors in film history and the only one who succeeded in mainstream American cinema. A graduate of the Film School of Łódź, the cinema visionary is an expert on the dark side of the human psyche and a master of ironic social observations. He is also […]
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The 10 Best Film Scores of 2017
What makes a good movie score? Is it how effectively the music pairs with the movie? Is it how easy the songs are to listen to by themselves? Determining what makes an effective score is a tricky task. Truthfully, it’s a combination of several elements. All of those elements were taken into account when compiling […]
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The 10 Most Influential Cinematographers of All Time
The cinematographer, or director of photography, is one of the three main collaborators of a director; it is the head of a whole department, and his or her work is sometimes hard to tell apart from the director. Thus, it’s hard to define what a cinematographer does and what they don’t do, since there are […]
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The 10 Best Female Movie Characters of All Time
In all honesty, this kind of list is impossible. Narrowing down the many names here was not only difficult: it was savage, too. So many wonderful female characters exist throughout film history, from different countries and all walks of life. There will be so many worthy characters left out. What we have tried to do […]
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The 10 Most Anticipated Blockbusters of 2018
The new year is well underway at this point. 2018 is proving to not be the mental cleanse we all wanted, as a new number at the end of the year doesn’t immediately reset the hellscape we still live in. But if there’s one thing we can rely on, it’s the cleansing power of cinema. […]