Since the origins of the medium, Britain has been one of the leading forces of the film industry. Directors from the country have been greatly involved in the revolutionizing of cinema from its very beginning, starting with the silent era. Although Hollywood mostly controlled the silent film scene, there were many British films made during […]
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20 Character Actors Who Should Get More Leading Roles
Character actors are an interesting breed since they don’t usually fit into pre existing personality slots. Hollywood tends to prefer actors they can reuse in various similar roles and character actors don’t usually fit that requirement. They jump around to different personalities, perhaps never solidifying exactly what their character type is but also managing to […]
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10 Actors That Could Fit in Wes Anderson’s World
When it comes to talk about an director such as Wes Anderson, there’s often an general idea of what his films will bring. This is nostalgic, complex plots focused on lonely characters with dysfunctional families, 1960s-1970s soundtracks (with the exception of ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’) and perfect symmetry in every shot. There however, nothing of […]
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11 Actors Nominated Twice for the Academy Awards in the Same Year
The Academy doesn’t like to make exceptions, and making movies is not an easy and quick process. That’s particularly true of directors and writers, but it’s also rare for an actor to appear in two or more movies that are not only worth the gold, but actually make the Academy’s cut. That happened in 2016 […]
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The 30 Greatest Living European Cinematographers
Europe is definitely an area of great directors, film schools, festivals, films naturally, but also the cinematographers. In front of you is the list of 30 great living cinematographers who are originally from Europe, who live or work there. Of course, one article is too short to mention all the great European directors of photography, so […]
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The 15 Greatest Japanese Cult Directors of All Time
When the majority of film fans refer to Japanese cinema, they tend to mention master filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Shohei Imamura. However, apart from the social and family dramas, and the historic films these directors shot, Japanese creators have been excelling in another mainly “underground” category, which in the last decades has […]