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Lovers of surrealist film may not know where to begin when narrowing down their options for the next movie night. While some adore the works of original surrealist masters Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, others may prefer to watch more recent fare. The following is a list of five of the most popular, though perhaps not most critically acclaimed, surrealist films of the last two decades:

1) Lost Highway, directed by David Lynch. Released in 1997, this neo-noir psychological thriller tells the tale of a maniacal saxophonist More…

French art films were once the hottest thing in American cinema, getting select screenings at the poshest theaters and arousing the interests of critics and mainstream audiences like. Naturally, some of these films made into the global film canon and have become the world’s most loved French art films.

The French New Wave, a movement that began with a group of directors in the 1950s and 1960s, produced a lot of the films we revere as the classic French art films.

Last Tango in Paris, starring Marlon Brando, is one of the most memorable to More…

Film noir was a genre of American crime movie popular in the 40s and 50s. Directors of film noir introduced many innovative techniques, which will be the focus of this article.

John Huston was probably the first director of the genre, with the first such movie being “The Maltese Falcon” 1941). Huston studied abroad in Paris and worked as a painter there in his early years, and he applied the visual techniques he had learned to his directing: He would sketch his scenes on paper and then carefully More…