Between 1947 and 1955 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences bestowed an honorary award to one film each year that they believed to be the best in international cinema. Beginning in 1956, the Academy turned the honorary award into an award of merit, thus creating the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. […]
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The 30 Greatest Movie Performances That Didn’t Receive Oscar Nominations (1990-1999)
It is getting to be that time of the year once again. A favorite time of the year because of upcoming events. March Madness and the Academy Awards are nearly upon us. And it’s all sporty fun, pardon the intended pun. Each year we find ourselves looking at these huge events awaiting to see what […]
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The 10 Best War Movies of The 21st Century
The popularity in recent years of war films such as Lone Survivor and American Sniper have demonstrated a resurgence of the war film genre. Few films were made in the years between Operation Desert Storm and the present, similar to war film production in the years during and after Vietnam. Public outcry or indifference serves […]
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17 Essential Movies For An Introduction To Essay Films
Put most concisely by Timothy Corrigan in his book on the film: ‘from its literary origins to its cinematic revisions, the istic describes the many-layered activities of a personal point of view as a public experience’. Perhaps a close cousin to documentary, the film is at its core a personal mode of filmmaking. Structured in […]
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25 Great Psychedelic Movies That Are Worth Your Time
Psychedelia in film is characterized by distortion (both in image and in sound), experimentation in narrative and editing, and sometimes drug-inspired hallucinations. Like the psychoactive drugs which produce heightened sensory perceptions and distortion, psychedelic films present to their audience an unfamiliar and/or dream-like view of reality. The following films use cinematography, narration, editing, sound design, […]
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20 Famous Actors Who ‘Disappeared’ After Their Prime
Making it to the top is hard but staying there may be even harder. The ridiculous cliché ridden 1967 show biz camp classic Valley of The Dolls is a stupid, foolish film in very many ways but it does get at least one thing right: while making it to the top in “the business” is […]