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Another award season reached its end last night with the 85th Academy Awards. Seth MacFarlane was hosting this… unusual ceremony, which was a bizarre mix of Academy’s conservatism and New Hollywood’s spirit. Early Nielsen ratings show the Oscar telecast earned a 26.6 rating and a 41 percent share of the TV audience, marking a 4 … Continue reading
Spoiler Alert Django (with a silent D) Unchained has all the characteristics of a Tarantino movie. Dynamic soundtrack which varies from Ennio Morricone western themes and folk music to 2Pac and James Brown, panoramic long shots combined with extreme close ups on the characters’ faces, memorable prose, the postmodern cult aesthetic of the movie, manifested … Continue reading
The issue of metamorphosis in Alice in Wonderland operates on a double level. The ordinary world’s metamorphosis, in order to become the dreamy Wonderland, reveals the hidden unrationalism of the adults’ world and points out the hypocricy and the comformism of a corrupted society, which although it is realistic, it has stopped being true. Within … Continue reading
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The myths, the legends and the fairytales offer a rich material to a ‘cinematic sector’, which in America incarnated the American Dream during the Interbellum and in Europe a better and dreamy future, an utopia without war battles and memories of the wounded recent past. It offered idealized heroes-savers and supernatural beings. Fantasy Cinema offered … Continue reading
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