The input of Australians in both local and international film has sometimes been woefully ignored, or misappropriated. Nevertheless, there have been many fantastic Australian films (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Mad Max, Chopper) made solely by Australian talents, and also significant contributions in American and international cinema, as directors (George Miller, Peter Weir), cinematographers (John Seale, […]
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The 10 Most Promising Indie Film Directors Working Today
Indie film is experiencing something of a renaissance these days, thanks to extensive media coverage of film festivals, a variety of movie sites that provide free publicity for films, and widely available streaming services that make movies more accessible than ever before. Indie films do not have a lot of money behind them and in […]
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10 Great Filmmakers Who Once Were Photographers
Marshall McLuhan considered advertising the greatest art form of the 20th century- for the same reasons, cinema is also an art that perfectly combines other artistic areas. The production of a film includes literature (script), architecture (scenery), painting (color), performing arts (acting), music (film score), comic strip (animation films and storyboarding) and mainly photography (image […]
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The 10 Most Meticulous Filmmakers in Cinema History
Directors can sometimes be negatively stereotyped as control-freaks and imperious lunatics. While a great deal of people who make this generalization in those terms tend not to know what they are talking about, they are only wrong in their claim that being demanding and wanting things to go a precise way is inherently bad in […]
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10 Actors Who Have Two Great Movies Coming Out This Year
It’s safe to say that 2016 has not been the brightest year for American cinema. Big summer movies not only fell short of expectations commercially, but also were probably the worst, artistically, in years. Can the last few months of the year make up for that? If it’s up to the actors on this list, […]
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15 Great Male Directors Who Are Good at Making Films About Women
There has been a great deal of discussion about the voyeuristic nature of cinema, especially since the structural and critical studies of the 1970s and the emergence of feminist theory. But above the contemporary concerns about the male gaze in cinema and how women are portrayed and observed, we can look back at past centuries […]