The biggest Oscar snub last year came with Anthony Hopkins winning Best Actor over Chadwick Boseman. The Academy often makes mistakes that are hard to acquit. Most of these are erroneous judgments in the Best Picture category. As much as we remember films that take home the prestigious Oscar, it’s hard to forget those that ...
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Cinema is uniquely the predominant modern art form. Narrative cinema in particular originated in the 1890s with Alice Guy-Blaché and Georges Méliès making the early short fictional works. Narratives determined the style of a film. Later, it led to the creation of different film genres, and by the 1910s cinema became a major industry. The ...
Cinema is uniquely the predominant modern art form. Narrative cinema in particular originated in the ...
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One of the few gems of world cinema, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane has set a benchmark for quality that all films should aspire for. From the doyens of Hollywood, like Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg, to contemporary French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius of The Artist (2011) fame, all have paid visual homage to this timeless ...
One of the few gems of world cinema, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane has set a benchmark for ...
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Mise-en-scène, a phrase from the French language pronounced meez-on-senn, originated in the theater somewhere in the early 19th century. So, what is a mise-en-scène? In English, it simply means ‘staging’, i.e., arrangement of actors, scenery, and props in a theatrical production. In relation to cinema, the term was first popularized by renowned French film theorist and ...
Mise-en-scène, a phrase from the French language pronounced meez-on-senn, originated in the theater somewhere in ...
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Iconic filmmaker Martin Scorsese is as well-known for his masterpiece films as for his Favorite Films lists. Beyond directing thriller and true crime classics like Taxi Driver (1976) and Goodfellas (1990), he’s a passionate cinephile and advocate for film appreciation and preservation. He refreshingly seems to enjoy watching films as much as he enjoys making them. ...
Iconic filmmaker Martin Scorsese is as well-known for his masterpiece films as for his Favorite ...
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Dipankar Sarkar
