Violence, deceit, and criminal activities within an urban setting seem to be the main landscape that we most commonly associate with the crime thriller genre. However, these are used more than often as canvases to represent some deeply personal and emotional stories. From self-doubt, hatred and paranoia to jealousy, repentance and fear, the genre is […]
Saturday, June 28, 1969. We’re at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. It’s 1:19 a.m. in the dark nightclub. The walls are painted black and the only lights that are on are pulsating gel ones. It’s 1:20 a.m. and a total of eight police officers burst in through the double doors and shout: “Police! We’re […]
This list/article is the fifth in a series arguing that for cinema to-be-and-to-be-taken-seriously as an art-form, it must forgo-and-move-beyond Hollywood-like visual-based ways-of-meaning-formation/understanding into actor-, face-, dialogue-, voice-, emo-tion-, body-, character-, feeling,-, behavior/psychology-, and tone-based ones. Readers are strongly advised to read my four previous articles, especially (though-by-no-means-only) the lengthy-theoretical/aesthetic introduction to the first, which obvious-ly-cannot […]
There are some things that money cannot buy, and these movies are a great example of that. Just because a film has a high budget does not mean that it is guaranteed to be amazing or even decent. There are a lot of components and factors that go into making a film, meaning that something […]
There’s nothing greater than a film that makes you think. A film that lingers on your mind long after the credits have rolled and is the subject of many conversation and discussion. Trying to piece together the puzzle of what you saw and coming to a conclusion that makes sense or still doesn’t add up. […]
The notion of a “foreign cinema” is becoming more and more obscure in the context of vast cosmopolitan production. This is shown through the outlying antiquity that is the foreign language film section at the annual Academy Awards, in which countries are meant to compete for American condescension due to the imperative of rule thirteen. […]