For a film school drop-out who, in his younger days, was renowned for being something of an egotistical, cocaine addled control freak, Paul Thomas Anderson has cemented himself as a much loved director in the hearts of many. One of the vital elements making his films such high quality is the superb performances he repeatedly […]
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The 20 Best Movie Soundtracks of The 1960s
The 60s was a revolutionary period for cinema. It was the beginning of The New Hollywood, a pivotal era that changed the whole industry. All around the world filmmakers like François Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and Roman Polanski were producing challenging pictures in consonance with the social […]
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10 Filmmaking Lessons You Can Learn From Paul Thomas Anderson
It would not be an exaggeration to say that Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the finest directors working today. From his early shorts to Hard Eight, all the way to his latest film Junun, there is much we can learn from Anderson’s work: the way he chooses his actors, wields the camera in innovative […]
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The 16 Best TV Series Directed by Movie Directors
With the golden age of television looming large over not only modern cinematic practices but exerting an omnivorously outward reaching hand toward film directors like never before, the time seems right for a look back on the film directors who have, pre-fame or post-fame, looked to the smaller screen as either stepping stone or sabbatical […]
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10 Reasons Mad Max: Fury Road Is Far From a Modern Masterpiece
Mad Max: Fury Road has a 97 on Rotten Tomatoes and an 89 on Metacritic. It has won 116 awards, according to IMDB, and has been nominated for 123 – including an Oscar for Best Picture. Enough is enough. Yes, Mad Max is a fun, stylish film. No one disputes its entertainment value. But is […]
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9 Recurring Themes in The Cinema of Werner Herzog
With some 60+ feature films, shorts, documentaries and various other directed works under his belt, the cinema of Werner Herzog covers a vast landscape of worlds and peoples. He is one of the few directors whose name has given birth to its own adjective – one might describe a film as Herzogian just as one […]