The earliest known origin of the term henchman dates back to the 1300’s, coming from the Old English word, hengest, literally meaning ‘horse’, and referring to an employee, otherwise known as a groom, who would tend to a master’s animals. Later the term would often be used to describe a page or hand scribe, before […]
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The 10 Best Scenes in Sofia Coppola Films
“That’s the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.” “I’m used to people not expecting much from me.” – Sofia Coppola, from The New York Times, August 31, 2013 “Don’t let Sofia’s littleness and quietness confuse you. Sofia is made of steel. She’s tough, but she doesn’t pretend to […]
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Being Charlie Kaufman: 5 Philosophical Cases of the Logic of the Absurd in His Surreal Cinema
“You know the story of the crazy man who was fishing in his bathtub. A doctor with ideas as to psychiatric treatments asked him ‘if they were biting,’ to which he received the harsh reply: ‘Of course not, you fool, since this is a bathtub’…In [this story] it can be grasped quite clearly to what […]
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The 20 Best Goodbye Scenes in Movie History
Is a goodbye forever, or is it only until the next time? And is every goodbye a new welcome, or is it sometimes merely a full stop? And finally, does it come with a soundtrack and a sunset, or with a silent nod and a broken heart? Worldwide (and notably, mostly American) cinema has been […]
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The 15 Most Shocking Scenes in Japanese Cinema
In Japanese cinema, which has never abstained from anything extreme but, on the contrary, embraced everything grotesque, both in terms of violence and sexuality, there was bound to be a plethora of shocking scenes. Add to that some peculiar humor, some extreme techniques used to realistically present truly horrific scenes, broken taboos, and the absolute […]
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13 Great Movie Posters You Didn’t Know Were Inspired by Famous Artworks
The film poster is in many ways a quite young and transient art form compared to others. This is mainly due to the dilemma of what exactly the poster is: marketing or art? These days it seems that the film poster has lost a lot of the more creative and artistic part of its existence. […]