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What does it mean to be reading romance? And how is it viewed by peers?

Read Love Me Some Love, by @TheMonaFactor , on Incurato.

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The ‘slow-burns’ serve a purpose too.

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We all have filmbros around us.

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Time for some slangs.

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Admin’s favourite list yet!

Here we round up seven of the greatest film noir classics which are adapted from a source novel.

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America’s Lonely Men.

A great list of films that features male loneliness, set in different versions of America.

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In today’s #SevenSelections, we recommend movies which feature hotels as a prominent element of the plot or setting.

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The first rule of mise-en-scène is that it can’t be defined accurately and precisely. Here’s an attempt.

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What’s your favourite freeze frame and why is it the last shot of ‘Another Round’?

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There’s a lot in cinema that was contributed by the Soviets.

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And here, films from the year 2007 that we absolutely dig! (apart from Chak De India, of course)

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Today we recommend some must-watch masterpieces from South Korea!

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Starting a new series called #SevenSelections that will feature lists of seven films, shows, or book recommendations by Incurato, having a common theme.

The theme for the first #RecsbyIncurato is 'By Women, On Women', ft. seven films with women leads, made by women filmmakers.

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So what exactly is Intensified Continuity?

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Legendary film editor Walter Murch’s rules to guide cutting and the rough, relative weightage of factors.

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And there have been several fiction films as well, which are said to feature or be influenced by the cinema-vérité style. For example:

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Our new InfoSeries called #Film101 where we plan to cover key concepts, theories, and trends in films.

First up is Cinéma-vérité, a style commonly associated with documentary filmmaking but has also had notable impact on certain trends in fiction as well.

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Some iconic documentaries which are considered to be the canon of vérité filmmaking.

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@Criterion @Janusfilm @PayalKapadia86 5. Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys Collector’s Set
6. The Documentaries of Louis Malle Collector’s Set
7. Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston
8. Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 Collector’s Set

(covers courtesy The Criterion Collection)

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All We Imagine as Delight!

a quick summary of all the sets and titles Payal Kapadia picked while visiting the famed Criterion closet:

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@Criterion @Janusfilm @PayalKapadia86 1. Loves of a Blonde | Miloš Forman
2. La Jetée/Sans Soleil Collector’s Set | Chris Marker
3. Charulata | Satyajit Ray
4. Trilogy of Life Collector’s Set | Pier Paolo Pasolini