Ida From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes IDA, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation. 18-year old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naïve, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism.
10 Thrilling Movies Based On True-Life Survival Stories In the last century, Hollywood has pumped out a number of amazing and captivating survival stories, and while many of the fictional ones are incredibly impressive, it’s the ones that are based on a true story that carry an extra spark. In the imagination, one can think of a person surviving through just about everything anything, but it means a lot more when you watch someone go through ungodly trials and then find out those events happened to a real individual. In the past few weeks, audiences have been going in droves to see one such film - Alejandro G. Inarritu’s The Revenant - so we figured that we’d take a moment to reflect on some of the great true story-inspired survival stories that have been adapted for the cinematic experience. Did your favorite make the cut? Read on to find out! The Revenant Let’s start off with the film that inspired this list, shall we? Alejandro G.
Night Moves There's something kind of flat about Christopher Blauvelt's cinematography, which doesn't carry much flash to compensate for the usual technical shortcomings in an independent film like this, and yet, the drabness of the technical shortcomings, combined with a bleak coloration, compliments the sense of grit that defines what effective aspects there are to this overly subtle drama, and aesthetically speaking, the cinematography really comes to life when Blauvelt's lensing falls over near-haunting visuals that stress a particular setting in a fashion which is sometimes all-out lyrical in its providing memorably beautiful imagery, some of which carries purpose and substance. This film's subject matter does not make for all that interesting of a story, but themes regarding the lengths certain people will go to do right by the environment are intriguing in their nature, and that establishes plenty of potential for dramatic intrigue.
The 18 Best Philosophical Movies of All Time Whether realizing the art form of filmmaking or not, directors and writers often use their preferred visual medium to tell a story. Ideologies, theories or whatever form of message is always decoded in this visual medium in hopes that the audience gets the message. The secret of making a successful film, especially when telling a story, is to avoid preaching. From Mel Gibson to Seth Macfarlene, Federico Fellini to Ridley Scott and of course Hitchcock, their movies have messages, from symbolist storytelling to clever subtext dialogues. Here’s a list of some of the movies that have philosophical messages encoded for the audience. 1. Hitchcock, the master of suspense, toys with his audience, repels and lures them to a world of shock. Starring in this underrated classic are James Stewart, Farley Granger and John Dall. This is an anti-existentialist movie, and James Stewart discovers to his horror that, following existentialism principles, two of his students have killed their classmate. 2.
Favourite 50 Indie Films - a list by DreamDeparture Netflix UK best movies list The top 50 foreign language films of the last decade It is quite clear that mainstream cinema no longer applies just to Hollywood blockbusters, or the odd British comedy. With the advent of mass home cinema in the last decade, and the increasing availability of pretty much anything and everything on DVD, Blu-ray, or streaming services like Netflix, world cinema has finally crossed the divide of being the preserve of the connoisseur, or the type of thing you’d stumble on late at night on TV. In the last ten years, world cinema has made a massive impact on film-of-the-year lists, and many people’s personal favourites. Starting from 2002 and ending here in 2012, it’s safe to say that you’ll have seen many of the films below, and enjoyed them simply as great pieces of filmmaking, regardless of where they came from. If, however, you are in any doubt of the utter brilliance of world cinema, then take your time to read the list below, and pick a few to watch that interest you. 50. The anti-Hollywood blockbuster. 49. 48. 47. 46. 45. 44. 43. 42.
I watch therefore I am: seven movies that teach us key philosophy lessons | Film How can we do the right thing?Force Majeure If you had lived in Germany in 1939, would you have helped protect Jews or gone along with their systematic extermination? If you had been an MP 10 years ago, would you have milked your expenses for what they were worth? We all like to think that in such situations our basic decency would shine through, but we can never know. In the aftermath, several characters try to excuse him. Aristotle’s insight was that we rarely have the time or opportunity to sit down and think about what the best thing to do is before acting. We can pretend that Tomas just had a moment of madness where his primal survival instinct took over, but his wife, Ebba, knows better, and so do we. Force Majeure tells us what Aristotle knew: unpredictable events happen, random “acts of God” for which no one is responsible. Julian Baggini’s Freedom Regained, is published by Granta, £14.99. What makes a life worth living? Can anything really be justified? “And then?”
The 50 Most Genuinely Creepy Horror Movies They rely on atmosphere and suspense rather than gore and jump-scares. Here’s our pick of the 50 most genuinely creepy horror movies… Creepy isn’t the same as scary. Films can be scary simply by using loud noises and sudden movements to make their audiences jump; they can play on primal fears and physical reactions to give you a thrill. But creepy is harder to pull off. To be effectively creepy, a film needs to establish a certain atmosphere; it needs to draw you in and make you care. I love most kinds of horror movies, but creepy films are probably my favourite. Cat People (1942) Serbian immigrant Irena doesn’t have a friend in the world when she meets Oliver. The Nameless (1999) Five years after her daughter Angela went missing, presumed dead, Claudia starts getting weird phone calls. Dead End (2003) The Harrington family are driving home for Christmas when they decide to take a shortcut. Night Of The Living Dead (1968) “It is happening, and no one is safe.” Candyman (1992) Ring (1998)
The 50 best movies of all time By Ben Taylor, Graphiq Posted: 05/20/2016 06:06:51 AM PDT | Updated: a day ago Ask 100 people to name their top five movies, and you'll get 100 different answers. That's the beauty of cinema: it's an art form that impacts each viewer uniquely. Combine all those individual opinions into a single list, however, and you'll likely wind up with a ranking much like the one below. At PrettyFamous, an entertainment site from Graphiq, we set out to determine a consensus ranking of best movies. 1. *We also included a slight adjustment for inflation-adjusted box office gross. Using these figures, we calculated a single score out of 100 for every film in our database, normalized such that the top film received a perfect 100/100. Notes: Films without a Metacritic Metascore were not penalized. Classics in the Top 10, Modern Films After Classic, influential films dominate the top 10. Outside the top 10, however, films from the '90s and '00s dominate the list. Pixar's Dominance Scorsese, Jackson, Spielberg