Poetic realism is a kind of realistic drama that has poetic or allegorical elements. It was a film movement that was most popular in 1940s France and was led by the celebrated French filmmaker, Jean Renoir. Poetic realism is a type of art that aims…

French Impressionist cinema is a style of film-making that was developed in France in the 1920s. Originally, French Impressionist Cinema was used to describe a group of films made by French directors in the 1920s that shared similar aspects of visual style such as rapid…

The Pure Film Movement is an avant-garde filmmaking movement inspired by the modernist views of the camera’s potential that emerged in the 1920s, led by a group of directors from Japan. As with most art movements, there was no official manifesto or statement; however, they…

In the 1930s and 1940s, there was a British documentary film movement. It was called Documentary Film Movement and it was headed by John Grierson, who coined the term ‘documentary’. He worked for the Empire Marketing Board in the 1920s and created many documentary film…

The best jump scare movies are so good that they can make you scream even if you know it’s coming. A lot of these films will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end, while others will give you a good…

There’s an old saying that Hollywood is a place where they tear down the house to build a parking lot. But in Toronto, Canada, there’s no parking problem: it’s a city of high-rises and underground parking. The Toronto New Wave cinema movement is largely considered…

Surrealist cinema was born out of the ideology and visual experiments of the Surrealist Movement, which began in 1924 when a group of writers and artists issued a “Surrealist Manifesto” in Paris. The movement rejected logic and reason (as defined by modern society) in favor…

Soviet Parallel Cinema is a term used to describe the nonconformist and experimental movies that were made in the former Soviet Union, outside of the state-controlled studio system. The term was coined by Russian film critic Yuri Tsivian, who has written extensively on the subject….

For those who love world cinema, there is no better feeling than discovering a new film movement. Just as the French New Wave and Italian Neorealism gave birth to some of the most influential directors in history, Romanian New Wave Cinema has given the world…

The Remodernist film movement began in the year 2000 by a group of filmmakers and writers. The movement seeks to “remodernize” cinema, to get away from the stale, predictable films that have dominated Hollywood for decades. Remodernist filmmakers tend to use long takes, and tend…