“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.” – Jean Renoir The critical designation of three films as a Trilogy is made to emphasize the Director’s fixation on a particular subject or his development and treatment of a theme or style. The directors that have […]
Year: 2018
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10 Great Horror Movies You Might Have Never Seen
With so many releases, it’s hard to catch every little thing that comes out, and unfortunately that means that many gems are missed. With the horror genre being one of the more filled genres around, this seems to happen more and more, no matter the year. In this list, there are some older films, but […]
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10 Great Movies Exploring The Essence To Be A Human Being
What does it mean to be a human being? What is our longing to be homo sapiens on this planet? What about our human condition makes it’s so vital to possess the full essence of being a human being? Everyone has thoughts on this and I can assure you this list won’t answer those questions. […]
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6 Reasons Why “Mandy” is Destined to be a Cult Classic
What constitutes a cult classic? It’s a term that has been used to describe when a film has failed to find a large audience and instead collected a small but devoted following. Does that definition still hold true? In part, yes. However, there are plenty of films that have failed commercially but are able to […]
Cold War – VIFF 2018 Review
Gracefully charting the delirious highs and heartbreaking lows of the excited love affair between a composer named Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) and a folk singer named Zula (Joanna Kulig) as they conform to the sour vagaries of life in post-war Poland under Communist rule, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War is an achingly lovely achievement. Like Ida (2013), […]
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10 Movie Masterpieces You Might Have Never Seen
Magnum opus, masterpiece, chef d’ oeuvre or swan’s song. Regardless of what we choose to name it, we know what we speak of when we speak of an immensely great work of art and in this case film. The ones in this list may be indeed what the word betrays, the master’s greatest work or […]