Somewhere in the hustling streets of Paris, in the retro cafés, or behind the penetrable walls of a modern era’s stylish yet melancholic apartments, a radical film movement found the proper soil and materials to build a brand new, epochal but still prophetic landmark of a fresh cultural and sociopolitical consciousness. Conjured by artists who […]
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The 10 Most Overrated Movie Performances Of All Time
First of all, I’d like to say that I, too, am not the biggest fan of saying something that people hold dear is “overrated.” Especially a performance, for I am neither a performer nor an academic in the field of performing arts. I am most definitely not Stanislavski. My knowledge is limited to reading books […]
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10 Great Movie Scenes Where The Actor Wasn’t Acting
There are many different approaches one can have when making a film, and one can certainly stick to the script and to whatever gets planned in pre-production. Many directors are known for wanting to plan in advance everything that will end up in the film, down to the last line. But sometimes, a great cinematic […]
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7 Reasons Why “Dancer in the Dark” Is the Most Depressing Movie of the 21st Century
This list/article is the sixth in a series arguing that for cinema to be and to be taken seriously as an artform, it must forgo and move beyond Hollywood-like visual-based ways of meaning-formation/understanding into actor-, face-, dialogue-, voice-, emotion-, body-, character-, feeling,-, behavior/psychology-, and tone-based ones. It is focusing on “Dancer in the Dark” (2000, […]
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10 Potentially Great Movies Ruined by Terrible Casting Decisions
A film can have a great script, a director’s vision, and exceptional set design but still fall flat if the wrong people are involved. Casting decisions are the easiest and readiest example of failure for viewing audiences. Famously, Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was such a travesty of casting that everyone involved apologised – […]
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The 20 Best Movie Performances of The 2010s (So Far)
Far too much is written in year-end lists about great acting as it forms such an integral, indispensable part of our moviegoing experience. Actors are, at the end of the day, the face of the film. They channel the truth of their characters and express the thematic intentions of the filmmaker seamlessly and in the […]