The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial events in the 20th century and American history in general. The popular unrest and opposition to the war caused a much different portrayal of the event than previous wars had garnered. While war films had always shown as a dangerous and hellish affair, they had usually […]
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15 Great Films That Blur The Line Between Fiction and Reality
The line between what is fiction (narrative) and reality (documentary) and the possible perceptions of each through the immediate separation of the frame have been blurred and reworked by filmmakers since the beginning of the cinema. This concept of the viewers perception of reality and what exists inside and outside the frame is equally as […]
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The 13 Best Documentaries About True Crimes
While the human obsession with true crime might be innate, the nonfiction genre is relatively new to be taken seriously. With the recent success of the HBO series, The Jinx, and the hit podcast, Serial, true crime seems to be on everybody’s minds. Investigating crime might be inherently interesting for anybody with a taste for […]
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15 Great LGBT Coming-of-Age Movies That Are Worth Watching
Being a member of the LGBT community is a life altering experience. This experience starts with the first discovery of true identity and it can vary greatly depending on the person. This realization may come at four, fourteen or one hundred, but there is a moment of profound revelation . In cinema, these moments of […]
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20 Great 2000s Indie Movies You May Have Missed
If the 1990s was the modern heydey of the indie film, with many a new voice emerging from an era of renaissance, the 2000s represented the period in which American filmmakers began to churn out indie films in factory-like abundance. They became cheaper to make, a fact which yielded endless independent production companies were sprouting […]
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12 Great French Surrealist Films That Are Worth Your Time
France is considered to be responsible for influencing the surrealist movement due to surrealism emerging from Dada art in Paris during WWI. The goal of surrealist art was to liberate imagination and the subconscious mind. In the early 1920s, surrealists sought out a new art form that was separate from paintings and sculptures and discovered […]