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Sara Di Muzio looks at ten films that utilize a frame narrative to striking thematic effect and resonate far beyond Shakespeare and various media.
As we enter an indeterminate period of self-quarantine, modern technology enables us travel the globe from our living room. Here’s a number of foreign films to keep you occupied.
As a follow-up to our previous recommendations on underrated 1940s noir for Noirvember, we jump a decade later, to the 1950s.
In celebration of Noirvember, we present to you a list of 15 underrated classic noirs from the 1940s.
With a diverse breadth of content available at the click of a remote, Netflix continues its strong hold in the industry – leaving us to reap the benefits.
The Film Inquiry team went back through the history of the Academy Awards, and selected our personal favorites out of the many nominations.
With only a week and a half left for Christmas, we have some Christmas film recommendations for you – and not the usual ones.
The films that are so bad they’re good are the epitome in ironic movie-watching: intentionally watching terrible films in order to laugh at their technical failures, providing more humour than most comedies nowadays.
Whilst most filmmakers tend to lean on retelling Bram Stoker’s story of Dracula, this is a selection of creative and interesting takes on the popular vampire genre.
Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is action films directed by women.
Anthology films are generally regarded as being uneven, and even ones that are respected are sometimes not perfect through every single segment. I wanted to explore anthology films by looking at some with mostly negative reviews, hoping to find something great hidden within. Some of the films I watched in preparation were bad, with no moments of relief to help make it through their running times, while others were enjoyable with slight problems.
Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations with each week being a different theme. This week’s theme is the films of American director Don Siegel. Beginning his cinematic career making montage sequences for Warner Bros (most notably the opening of Casablanca), Don Siegel is quite an influential American auteur, redefining the sci-fi and crime thriller genres throughout his lengthy career.
Hundreds of thousands of moviegoers, press, and industry players descend on Canada every year for the Toronto International Film Festival. Eleven days of red carpets, screenings, junkets, and presentations cause a gluttonous amount of content to stream out of the city, covering everything from awards season contenders to fashion faux pas. It’s difficult to imagine anything getting missed by the avalanche, but those who attend know just how immense the festival is.
Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations with each week being a different theme.This week’s theme is the films of British cult director Alex Cox, and this article is a collection of those recommendations! The definition of the “cult movie” director, Alex Cox has had an incredibly interesting career, flirting with both studio and independent filmmaking – imprinting his own unique anarchic vision with each film he makes.
Over at our official Facebook page, we are currently posting daily film recommendations, with each week being a different theme. This is a collection of those recommendations! This week’s theme is bank heist films.