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Posted at July 29, 2013, 8:53 am:


This was a thread from another forum that I found quite interesting, so I thought I'd ask it here. I'm sure that most people here started watching movies as just entertainment - so which film or filmmaker really opened your eyes and discover the medium?

This is a question I'll find difficult to answer myself; since I've been obsessed with film since forever, really. Tarantino and Pulp Fiction did have a massive effect on me and - probably like every film fan - I went through a Tarantino worship phase for a while. I think my earliest cinematic obsessions were...

Tarantino and Rodriguez > Hitchcock > Kubrick > Kurosawa

Heh...I don't even like Rodriguez anymore.


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