The road to an Oscar nomination takes much more than giving a great performance. Receiving a nomination requires extensive campaigning from studios and genuine passion from industry voters, and there are common genres and types of performances that tend to be left out of the awards conversation. It is hard for lesser known actors to […]
Month: January 2020
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The 20 Most Beautiful Movies of 2019
Wow, 2019 was a particularly strong and stunning year for film. With so many awe-inspiring visuals lighting up our living rooms, bijous, drive-ins, and multiplexes the world over, Taste of Cinema continues our exciting and tireless search for the most visually exquisite films of 2019. As ever, such a task was no easy charge, and […]
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The 16 Coolest Single-Shot Sequences In Cinema
Cinema inspires, astounds and mesmerizes us, transporting us to situations and locations totally alien to our daily lives or so similar to our own experiences and feelings we can hardly believe someone had managed to capture them. Cinema allows us to live in other worlds and other times, to jump inside the skin of others […]
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10 Great Movies To Watch If You Liked “Joker”
Director Todd Phillip’s Joker has recently become the first R rated film to gross one billion dollars at the worldwide box office, making it the most profitable comic book film of all time so far. Joker has made over fifteen times what it cost to make. Joker has been the subject of much controversy and […]
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The 10 Best Indie Movies of 2019
One of the great joys of this year in cinema has been seeing the many great indie films that have been released. Companies like A24, Neon, Fox Searchlight, and Amazon Studios among others have generated hype for a number of strong releases and made it possible for cinephiles to see some of the year’s best […]
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The 10 Best Arthouse Films of 2019
In a year where Disney films dominated 80% of box office revenues, it’s been easy to feel discouraged about the medium’s future. Fortunately, like every year, there’s still a batch of inventive and moving works from artists devoted to pushing film’s limits. This list summarizes some of the year’s finest achievements in arthouse filmmaking. Oddly […]