Paul Verhoeven, favorite director of many film fans has finally broken his ten year cinematic hiatus with the new film Elle. The motion picture was shot in France with a French crew and actors. Paul Verhoeven is a Dutch filmmaker, who started to make films in the Netherlands (Turkish Delight, Katie Tippel, Soldier of Orange)
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Collector
The film “Collector” (Коллектор) is the directorial debut of Alexey Krasovsky starring Konstantin Khabensky. The director has achieved the quite complicated task of creating a film with only one actor and using a single set. The actor who plays the role of a debt collector created an impressive character whose different aspects of personality unfold
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The Student (2016) – Review
The Student is an amusing character study of a religious fanatic “The Student” – “(M)uchenik” directed by Kirill Serebrennikov is an attempt to reconsider religious fanaticism in the modern world. The picture is based on the play “Martyr” by German author Marius von Mayenburg and it was adapted to the reality of modern Russia. In a
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Paradise (2016) – Review
The film “Paradise” directed by Andrei Konchalovsky was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Academy Awards. The subject of “Paradise” is the Holocaust, which has been often covered in film and has always been a popular topic at the Oscars. Konchalovsky tried to avoid clichés common in films about the topic.
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La-La Land Review
La-La Land is a very important film. It received so many Oscars, but we have seen weak films awarded before that. It is important as a proclamation of incompetence. This film invaded the musical genre which traditionally belonged to artists who can sing and dance. Falsification of art began a long time ago, for instance
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Despite the Falling Snow – PIFF 2016
The film was shown on the 17th of August, 2016 at the Prague Independent Film Festival (PIFF) and won the awards for Best Feature Film, Best Actress (Rebecca Ferguson) and Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Head). It is a romantic drama with elements of an espionage thriller adapted from the successful novel by Shamim Sarif with
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VIFF 2016 Vienna Independent Film Festival
Vienna Independent Film Festival which was held for the first time in Vienna 4 -7 July 2016 announced the winners on 7 of July. “We’re excited to be hosting so many wonderful films,” said Film Festival Director Elena Ringo. “There were guests from different parts of the world and great films to watch”. The festival
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God of Happiness – VIFF 2016
The new German film God of Happiness was shown on the 4th of July as the opening film of the VIFF Vienna Independent Film Festival and won two top awards – Best Director award for Dito Tsintsadze and Ralf M. Mendle received the award for Best Cinematography. It is a tragi-comedy set in modern Germany
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10 Mistakes of Beginner Filmmakers
Bad casting. Do not give roles only for the reason that it is cheap or free of charge. Although you might have great friends that does not mean they will make great actors. Actors should be either professional or similar to their characters both visually and behaviorally. Bad composition of the frame. Avoid extreme close-ups,
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Nature of Life in Cinema
“Ex Machina” is a science fiction film which tells a story of a young programmer, Caleb who is invited by his employer, Nathan, to administer the Turing test to a female robot, Ava who has Artificial Intelligence. The film investigates the subject of creation of a woman which has a long history in both literature
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Problems of Humanism in Solaris by Tarkovsky
The film Solaris was based on the fantastic novel by Stanislaw Lem but there is no doubt that the film adaptation by Tarkovsky is much deeper and more interesting than the novel. The novel of Stanislaw Lem is more about the exploration of the cosmos and the film of Tarkovsky is more about the earth
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Dreams of Home in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky
The dreamlike images of home present in many of Andrei Tarkovsky’s films have an allegorical meaning and reflect the transformation of the conscious and of the subconscious world of the author. Andrei Tarkovsky is renowned for metaphorical language, philosophical dialogue, esoteric symbolism and the blending between the subjective and objective. In his memoir Sculpting in
