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A deeper look at the movies we love and the people who make them
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How Robert Rodriguez made a film for $7,000
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The sounds of wuxia
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How costumes shape the world of The Fall
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Is Glen Powell a movie star?
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How The OC saved indie rock 🎸
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The colors of A24
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The sounds of A24
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How movies watch the news
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When your star looks uncool in sunglasses
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She always wanted to be a star
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When the director decides to make it queer
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When the real person’s life is messy
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When the title font *really* matters
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Her smile changed everything
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When your aesthetic goes viral
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When a character is hiding something
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When the sound design packs a punch
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His use of color is so satisfying
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Wim Wenders and the road less travelled
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His color palettes are just gorgeous
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When Hollywood tries to bury the original
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Only one country makes movies like this
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When the source material isn’t what you think
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There’s a reason the food looks so disgusting
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A beginner’s guide to Aki Kaurismäki
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The 30 best films of 2023
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When the director remakes their own movie
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When the director shows their sensitive side
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The sequel that broke all the rules
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It’s amazing how many sequels are set here
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Man, he sure does love driving
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If Wes Anderson made a David Fincher movie
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His colors look like no one else’s
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She’s incapable of giving a bad performance
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Wes Anderson Through Binoculars
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Female characters never behaved like this before
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Can you tell where every shot is from?
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When your color scheme is on point
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Filmmakers are obsessed with this niche genre
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You won’t hear his movies the same way after this
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When the metaphor hits the spot
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When the director isn’t afraid to get weird with it
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His films don’t always look like that...
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The truth about multiverses
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Succession – the prequel
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He finally found his perfect protagonist
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Acting doesn’t get much better than this
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You won’t look at his films the same way again
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Wait, has he been tricking us this whole time
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When you try and remake an all-time classic
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Not every director can act like this
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This dance has never gone out of style
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Next time, pay attention to his hands
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The best movie animals of 2022
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The 30 best films of 2022
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No other Christmas movie looks like this
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There’s personal filmmaking, then there’s this
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If they’re not victims, they’re monsters...
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When the director doesn’t play by the rules
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Listen carefully next time you watch his films
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When the director completely flips the script
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When the director really knows his color theory
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Hitchcock couldn’t have done it any better
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The moment they knew it was all over
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If Wes Anderson made a Tarantino movie
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There will never be another like him
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When the director remakes their favorite movie
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There’s cool, and then there’s this guy
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They knew they were about to change everything
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His movies don’t sound like anything else
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This cult genre was long overdue a revival
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She turned awkward comedy into an artform
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When the main character isn’t the good guy
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When your star is secretly a superhero
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The colours of Jordan Peele
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The sounds of David Cronenberg
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How Christopher Nolan remade Insomnia
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The Sopranos directed by Wes Anderson
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The transformation of Kirsten Dunst
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The Transformation Of Nicolas Cage
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A beginner’s guide to Robert Eggers
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The colours of Sean Baker
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Succession But It’s Arrested Development
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The sounds of Robert Eggers
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A beginner’s guide to Joachim Trier
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Arrested Development but it’s Succession
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The poetry of Tilda Swinton
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The colours of Guillermo del Toro
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A brief history of New German Cinema
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The sounds of Mia Hansen-Løve
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Why 2021 was the year of the movie musical
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The 30 best films of 2021
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The Vega Brothers – official trailer
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Street dance and the modern movie musical
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The Beatles on screen – Yellow Submarine to Get Back
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Once Upon A Time in Hollywood – a scene from the novel
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The Beatles on screen – A Hard Day’s Night to Help!
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Every movie reference in Spaced
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What makes a movie line memorable? Epistrophe
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A Beginner’s guide to Denis Villeneuve
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Pedro Almodóvar centered
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Hollywood couldn’t match the terror of the original
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What makes a movie line memorable? Rhetorical questions
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A brief history of the Australian New Wave
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How The Red Shoes changed horror
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True Romance – 4K restoration trailer
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How Kyle Cooper changed movie credits sequences
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How Pablo Ferro revolutionized movie title design
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How Saul Bass and the art of movie title design
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When you’re so talented they make a new award for you
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A brief history of New Mexican Cinema
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How David Cronenberg remade The Fly
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The transformation of Anthony Hopkins
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Back when film company logos were art
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Why do The Oscars hate this genre?
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A beginner’s guide to Chloé Zhao
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The evolution of split-screen cinema
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A celebration of women directors
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The Best Films Of 2020
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Did you even know this was a remake?
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New Year’s Eve in the movies
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You never see this in movies any more
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The B-movie monsters that time forgot!
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When you decide to break every rule in the book
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No one loves a cameo like Matt Damon
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Every Indiana Jones hat roll
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The sounds of Pedro Almodóvar
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Is this Bob Hoskins’ greatest performance?
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When you remake an animated classic with CGI
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Dinner with Brad Pitt
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When the director has an unusual appetite
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A personal ode to going to the movies
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A brief history of Cinéma du look
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How Akira Kurosawa inspired this classic western
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What makes a movie line memorable? Diacope
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The sounds of Paul Thomas Anderson
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What if Goodfellas was a ’90s sitcom?
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Why Parasite is actually a comedy
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The Sopranos and the death of the gangster genre
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The Irishman and the death of the gangster movie
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No one expected her to be this good...
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When the new cast is even better than the original
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The transformation of Clint Eastwood
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The secret meaning of fluffy pens
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How Jane Campion articulates desire
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The movies behind your favourite GIFs
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The transformation of Robert De Niro
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How to wash your hands (according to the movies)
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A brief history of the Korean Wave (Hallyu)
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A Beginner’s guide to Kelly Reichardt
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Wes Anderson’s guide to social distancing
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The colours of Céline Sciamma
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Same novel, two very different adaptations...
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The sounds of Bong Joon-ho
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A beginner’s guide to Bong Joon-ho
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The 30 best films of 2019
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A beginner’s guide to the Safdie brothers
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The best movies of the decade (2010-2019)
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They said it was impossible to remake
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Finally, a remake that gets it right
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The director who discovered Tom Hiddlestone
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10 films that shaped British cinema
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A film so good Martin Scorsese copied it
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Is this the best Ghostbusters movie?
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The sounds of Wes Anderson
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The colours of Claire Denis
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The sensual world of Claire Denis
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When you completely reshoot the original
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The colours of Barry Jenkins
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This was a great year for movie animals
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The best films of 2018
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The colours of Alfonso Cuarón
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There’s never been a cannibal movie like this
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Horror filmmakers love using this technique
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Would you eat any of these movie meals?
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The movie that predicted reality TV
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Wes Anderson is a dog killer!
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Is this the sweariest movie of all time?
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When objects tell the story
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Here’s the thing about AI...
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Christopher Nolan’s time puzzle
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