Picture by Thomas Fluharty When the dust settles and people look back on the career of Woody Allen, no doubt there will be more than a couple divides. On one hand there will be the people who renounce him unequivocally for what they have been led to believe about his personal life, tabloid shaming and questionable […]
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Bizarre Cinema of Terry Gilliam
In the early 1980s, German filmmaker Werner Herzog shot a film named ‘Fitzcarraldo’ in the jungles of South America, battling against forces of nature as formidable as hostile tribes, and an egomaniacal actor. In that film a 340 ton steamship is moved up and over a hill without the aid of special effects. This ostensibly […]
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson
On October 6, 2014, Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, Inherent Vice, an unprecedented adaptation of Thomas Pynchon, will premiere at the 52nd New York Film Festival. Every available scrap of information to be found on the internet is being trawled by the ‘unofficial’ fan page dedicated to him: Cigarettes and Red Vines – the Definitive […]
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20 Essential Robert Altman Films You Need To Watch
He was the most prolific American iconoclast, cynical of what he saw in us and yet deeply in love with the unruly nature of the society’s most undervalued and idiosyncratic people. He turned the medium of film inside out and upside down, thumbing his nose and extending his middle finger at prescribed standards of genre […]