Getting lost in an ambient doesn’t mean merely not being able to orient and find the path; the films included in this list are stories of the characters being dominated during the narration by a narrative ambient. For the same reason, you’ll find Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis) on the same list with Gerry (Gus Van […]
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The 10 Greatest Uses of Music in a Stanley Kubrick Film
I have seen thousands of films and I can honestly say, compared to his peers and most contemporaries, no one used music like Stanley Kubrick. Very unique for this era, Kubrick preferred the use of musical extracts that were often “contrapuntal” – music segments that are contradictory to the emotional or visual value of a […]
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The 30 Best Indie Movies of The Last 30 Years
Kurt Cobain once famously said that “punk rock is freedom.” By this, he meant that divorced from the dogma of mainstream rock, he was free to express himself however he wished, however odd or shocking that expression may well have been. This, evidently, helped him to keep his work intensely personal. If there is one […]
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The 15 Best Documentaries You Can Watch On Netflix Right Now
The return of the documentary in this era has been nothing short of a cinematic renaissance. Long after the golden age of ‘cinema verite” seemed to have drawn its last breath, and the initial rise of the 1970s, the often banality of Reality TV seems to have inspired a whole new generation of documentarians to […]
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The 16 Best Films Set in Tokyo
The history of modern Tokyo is to some extent a history of coping with catastrophe. Many, if not all, of the most famous Tokyo films seem haunted by some huge, destructive nightmare at the edges of the action. Even the quieter films that we’ve listed below are weighted down with an unshakeable historical awareness, be it […]
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10 Great Movies That Feature Characters Obsessed With Real-Life Celebrities
Obsession has been around since forever and is, sadly, an important part of human existence. Everyone goes through an obsessive stage (especially at a younger age) but most people manage to surpass or at least to control this terrible state of being. In the modern age, the most common obsession seems to be that for […]