Serious, focused performances are great. One of the greatest privileges of being a cinema lover is watching when an actor truly gets his role and is able to communicate every intricacy of it, every conflict and mannerism, its deepest desires and most terrible contradictions. Those are great performances, no doubt, but they are not the […]
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10 Lessons “Citizen Kane” Can Teach You About Scriptwriting
Released in 1941 Citizen Kane would eventually go on to be known as the ‘greatest film of all time’, it made a star of its director (also lead actor & ‘co-writer’) Orson Welles. Nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories, one can be forgiven for forgetting it didn’t actually win Best Picture (that went to […]
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The 20 Best Character Entrances in Cinema History
Film is the most hybrid of art forms, taking ideas and traditions from many sources. Perhaps the medium it owes the most to is the legitimate theater, being another platform for performing expressions of art. One long observed motif of the theater is the tradition of giving the production’s lead or prime featured player a […]
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The 10 Most Cringeworthy Moments In Otherwise Great Movies
If you watch a film often enough, you are bound to notice its flaws. Most of the time, this flaw is easily forgivable. Sometimes, however, this little flaw becomes a bit more problematic. So much so it might start to make you cringe. In this list, we are going to look at a collection of […]
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10 Reasons Why “No Country for Old Men” Is A Nihilistic Masterpiece of American Cinema
“No Country for Old Men”, the 2007 movie directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, can be seen as a diagnosis of a century in which we live. It portrays nihilism in its essential form, and of all the movies of this century, it does so most truthfully and vividly. The film is based on a […]
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The 10 Most Distinct Traits of Federico Fellini’s Cinema
Federico Fellini was one of the most effective filmmakers in cinema history. The filmmakers and artists who are inspired by Fellini’s works are numerous. Lina Wertmuller, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, and Tim Burton have all clearly admitted to be influenced by Fellini’s works. The fact that the expressions “Fellinian” and “Felliniesque” […]