Let’s face it – slow cinema can be a tough genre to introduce ourselves to, and even harder if you don’t know where to start. Diving in the deep end can be rather painful – definitely don’t start with the likes of Melancholia (Diaz, 2008) or Satantango (Tarr, 1994) unless you’ve prepared yourself for a […]
Month: October 2020
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The 10 Best Chow Yun Fat Movies
Chow Yun Fat is the coolest action star of all time because he’s the sweetest. Or maybe it’s because he’s the sweetest he’s the coolest. On May 18, 1955, Chow Yun Fat was born on Lamma Island, Hong Kong. His mother was a cleaner and vegetable farmer, his father an oil tanker. Living in a […]
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The 12 Best David Lynch Short Films
“Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.” – David Lynch Red curtains. Telephone […]
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10 Great Movies About The Loss of Innocence
The innocents, by not conceiving evil, have the capacity to marvel at the world as a mirror of the purity of their spirit. They have no judgments or pre-established concepts so they experience life through their instincts. This is why innocence is often related to childhood. But once the evils of society are known in […]
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10 Film Masterpieces That Need To Be Rediscovered
The non-American and, especially, non-Hollywood cinema, is neglected on a global scale by film goers who are used to seeing the same old tropes recycled to absurdity. Almost every year since the dawn of cinema, a handful of great flicks came out around the world that no one paid attention to that much. Some enjoyed […]
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10 Great Hong Kong Action Movies You May Have Never Seen
Action movies have long been the dominating genre of mainstream, populist filmmaking and the driving force of the box office. In spite of (or perhaps because of) that, they’re often dismissed as lesser cinematic offerings, not worthy of serious thought or consideration. It’s not entirely without reason that so many think this, since a significant […]