Expanding and Enriching Cinema Knowledge with Eghosa Osula

  Nowadays, in the world of film criticism, film fans tend to gravitate towards those who usually lack film knowledge. A lot of critics now hide their lack of knowledge behind a cinephile costume. The cinephile costume term means that someone pretends to be a cinephile by outwardly having knowledge by fooling people only to cause deception. This approach has made a lot of people think that they can placate to the masses by hiding their subpar knowledge. They hide behind this false image in order to get so much clout. They purposely say things like ignore the critics along with telling others that knowledge is not needed in order to be a cinephile. They think that loving movies is enough to be a cinephile. Being a causal is different than being a cinephile considering that they are two different terms in cinema. There should be one that is chosen over the other if someone wants to know who they are when it comes to experiencing cinema in the process. A causal is someone who only enj...

The New Hollywood Era is truly one of the greatest movements in cinema history. It was absolutely able to break new ground in terms of truly and honestly reflecting American life in film without being artificial when it comes to tackling serious subjects. Additionally, it gave birth to filmmakers like directors, cinematographers, editors, among others who took art seriously as a way to combat studio interference. The political correctness that was ubiquitous in the studio controlled Golden Age of Hollywood was eschewed by studios to let the new crop of filmmakers do what they want to do for the sake of maintaining creative control. The New Hollywood Era will always be a watershed movement in cinema as a result of its rebellious and subversive nature on filmmaking. After years of success, the studio system era that ran from the silent era to the 1960's was collapsing because of factors like weak box office returns, the popularity of television, along with censorship. Speaking of cen...