Over the last few years, people have had to shutter away from one another, and find their entertainment at home on small screens. In the process, it made us realize just how much of a privilege it is to sit in a large dark room with strangers, put under the spell of the moving image. […]
Author: Edward Leer
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The 9 Most Pretentious Movies of The 21st Century
In Eleanor Coppola’s documentary Heart of Darkness, her husband Francis laments, “Nothing is so terrible as a pretentious movie. I mean a movie that aspires for something really terrific and doesn’t pull it off is shit, it’s scum…and everyone will walk on it as such.” Of course Coppola is saying that he’d rather make a […]
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The 10 Best Movies About The Struggle Between Body and Soul
Film is the ideal arena to work out the conflict between the body and the soul. In many ways cinema, as an art form, boils down this primal struggle. The medium of film depends on action and movement; otherwise why not just write it instead? But there has to be the internal struggle as well, […]