Being a one-hit-wonder is something that happens all the time in the music industry. Bands crack the code and create a chart-topping song, but a lot of the time, these bands have multiple other songs that are pretty good, if not better. But when it comes to directors and filmmaking, it’s a little harder to […]
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10 Directors With The Greatest Number of Masterpieces
The difference between genius and skill can be difficult to recognize at first. Both can be used to make a great movie, but only one can be counted on to reliably repeat the results. A director with only technical, learned skill might create a masterpiece if every other contributing factor merges at just the right […]
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10 Actors Who Openly Hated Working With Their Directors
It’s no secret that actors and directors don’t always get on. Sometimes directors are just mean other times actors are stuck up, or possibly both can be true. A fair amount of the time these disputes are hardly heard of but every now and again they go public. And then there are times that they […]
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10 Famous Actors Who Have Made Only One Good Movie
Sometimes directors make odd choices to join their cast. But once you watch the film you see that their choice wasn’t odd at all, but completely logical. The director just saw something in the actor that fitted the character perfectly and it worked out just like they anticipated. The result of this is some pretty […]
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10 Legendary Directors Whose Legacy Are Enriched By Home Video
Many years ago in the introduction to her book of capsule reviews, 5001 Nights at the Movies, the noted film critic Pauline Kael rendered one of her (numerous) opinionated opinions by stating that anyone seeing a film on television, whether it be a live broadcast or via video, was committing a cultural crime with themselves […]
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The 10 Most Studied Movie Directors of All Time
It goes without saying that a list of only 10 directors couldn’t contain all the great directors that every student or person interested in cinema must take into account so as to have a wider knowledge about cinema, so it’s understandable that there’d discrepancies. Great directors such as Abel Gance, David W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, […]