Taste of Cinema – Movie Reviews and Classic Movie Lists

[...] the play The Letter by W. Somerset Maugham and was scripted by Howard E. Koch, famous for his Academy Award winning contributions to Casablanca (1942). The film was previously adapted as The Letter in [...]

[...] in 1956, the Academy turned the honorary award into an award of merit, thus creating the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Though controversial due to its nomination process, the [...]

[...] ”, a worldwide smash. He again won several awards including the Academy Award for Best Actor. He has continued to do great work since in a variety of films such as “Tinker, [...]

[...] /France/Italy Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Black Orpheus is a sun-soaked and sultry take on the Orpheus [...]

[...] ) and period of time (1930 to mid-1934), film noir was a different matter. These somber films were the products of the aftermath of one world war [...]

[...] are many genres of film represented here that exude the hauntingly beautiful aesthetic: film noir, horror, war drama, fantasy, period dramas, science fiction, and suspense. The common [...]

[...] Luc Godard, 1965) Alphaville is one of the best known of Jean Luc Godard’s films. It is a film noir made by a Nouvelle Vague master director, set in a sci-fi dystopian background. Lemmy [...]

[...] heart. Probably because of its poor reception at the box office, it was not nominated for any Academy Awards. 24. The Evil Dead (1981) dir. Sam Raimi Five students from Michigan State University, Ash [...]

[...] the President’s Men vs Taxi Driver In the bicentennial year, many of the films nominated for Academy Awards showed different sides of America, good and bad and delved into politics once more. Four [...]

[...] 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 [...]

[...] , becoming the first Chinese film to be nominated as Best Foreign Language Film in the Academy Awards. 3. Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Set in the 1920’s, a time when the control of China’s land [...]

[...] stands as the earliest feature-length anthropological documentary, and a landmark in film history. Robert Flaherty’s genre-defining silent film is a portrait of the Inuit way of life in [...]

[...] , he is known for his iconic gangster films and his encyclopedic knowledge, and application, of film history. With 21 feature films released at the time of this writing, Scorsese has surpassed most of [...]

[...] making him able to stop impending disaster. Frank, one of the scariest creatures ever in film history, travels back in time – after he’s dead – to help Donnie in his mission as a sort of [...]

[...] be catalogued as the Goodfellas of porn in the late 70s, Boogie Nights has its own place in film history. Boogie Nights proves before anyone else that Mark Wahlberg can be a very good actor, it [...]

[...] rape of the last one raises a chaotic attempt of revenge. A competitor of 2002 Cannes Film Festival, Irréversible immediately raised outraging viewers claiming its violence simply [...]

[...] acclaimed upon it release, eventually earning the international prize at the Cannes Film Festival along with a nomination for the Grand Prize (Palme d’or at the time). It also won the [...]

[...] should not distract from the brilliance of this film, which won the Palm d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The story will inevitably strike a chord with anyone who has ever loved and lost, [...]

[...] in 1989 following the dissolution of the Soviet Block. Despite being entered into the Cannes Film Festival (where Janda won best actress) it fell back into obscurity. This is a shame, as [...]

[...] more commercial popularity, the original Japanese picture still stands the test of time. The film features a cursed videotape, which is said to kill anyone who watches it after seven days. Two teenage [...]

[...] who has no idea how to tell his children about the loss of their mother. Side Note: this film features a score by Clint Eastwood. This is the only time Eastwood has scored a film that he has not [...]

[...] four sisters in Little Women. Based on the classical novel written by Lousia May Alcott, the film features a star-studded cast; Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, and Susan Sarandon taking [...]

[...] Palin, which might also explain the lingering Pythonesque humour in this feature) and the film features an all-star British cast including Sean Connery, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Ian Holm, Ralph [...]

[...] shining lights into dark corners that would prefer to stay dark. With this as his directorial debut, Ben Affleck is not afraid to show the uglier aspects of his beloved home town of [...]

[...] desperation associated with drug addiction. 17. The Last House on the Left (1972) The directorial debut of horror maestro Wes Craven remains one of his most shocking films to date. The plot [...]

[...] such, but rather he wrote the 1996 indie hit Swingers, which he also starred in, making his directorial debut with that same film’s spiritual sequel, Made, in 2001. Regardless, Favreau, whilst a [...]

[...] films and 8 short films. He died of pneumonia in 1968. 1. The President (1919) Dreyer’s directorial debut is about a judge who is forced into choosing between enforcing the law or helping his [...]

[...] deal with the family, Refn’s leitmotif (and such a theme is almost always portrayed in gangster films), especially in the last two. In the second this is between Tonny and his father ( [...]

[...] heights of their demimonde only to deteriorate into their own personal hells. The genre of gangster films either emphasize the audience’s desire for the hero to escape punishment or to get the [...]

[...] Thieves’ Highway (1949); and lastly director Raoul Walsh, who’s more famous for his gangster films than his noirs. George Raft’s career started to decline after this film mainly due to [...]

[...] (1930-32) Directed by Howard Hawks These three films are the holy trinity of 1930s gangster films, but many overlook the fact that these films raise issues about American society that [...]