When you think of the Hollywood Musical, three images are likely to conjure up in your mind: seeing young Dorothy Gale, just after landing in Oz, open the door for an overwhelming explosion of Technicolor marvel; Gene Kelly singing and dancing in the rain, the image of him clinging onto that streetlight forever ingrained into our cinematic minds; and, of course, the image of a young Fred Astaire wearing his iconic top hat and tails. It's that last image that’s…
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The Woman on the Beach 1947
The Woman on the Beach opens in perhaps the most mystifying way possible: a ship is battling raging waves and terrible winds before it is swamped by the water and pulled underneath. The ship floats quietly to the bottom of the sea as we see a man floating and images of a blonde woman flash sporadically throughout reaching out to the man before he is meant to fall to the bottom and become a skeleton like the ones he’s surrounded…
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Hercules in the Haunted World 1961
What makes Bava such an appealing genre filmmaker to study is his unquestionable desire to reinvent and experiment with the genre he’s working in to create something entirely different than what people would expect. By all accounts, Mario Bava was one of the cinema’s greatest filmmakers just based on his inventive nature, his ability to make something inherently unique and exciting, even if we feel as though it shouldn’t be. Taking the sword and sandal genre (a genre that’s truly…
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The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957
The fact that we never know what the mist truly is, the fact that none of those questions are answered, the fact that nothing is really wrapped up – gaining closure for something beyond our control, understanding something that we couldn’t possibly comprehend. The Incredible Shrinking Man takes its roots in the B-movie science fiction motion picture and creates one of the most downright terrifying works ever made, deceiving so many who may think the premise would result in something…
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Promises Written in Water 2010
Story time:
Vincent Gallo has a website where you can buy his sperm. If you’re not aware of this, I plead for you to journey out and give his site a glimpse. But beyond Vincent’s sperm, lies an email.
My ex-girlfriend and I had recently watched Buffalo ‘66 and loved it around this time last year. I would talk to my good friend, Che, about how much Gallo was a problematic artist whom I admired artistically. He asked me if…
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Charlie's Angels 2019
Kristen Jaymes Stewart (born April 9, 1990) is an American actress and director.
uhh lemme add comedian, queen, badass, icon, wig wearer, and ANGEL TO THAT LIST
