Nikola Grozdanovic, Author at The Playlist

Cannes 2017: Best & Worst Films, Trends And Tunes

Jessica Kiang, Nikola Grozdanovic, Gregory Ellwood and Bradley Warren

May 30, 2017 2:03 pm

The Cannes Film Festival 2017 has wrapped, and the four-strong Playlist team have all returned to their respective corners of the planet. But just before we slip entirely back into the real world and catch up o...

Roman Polanski’s Preposterous ‘Based On A True Story’ Written by Olivier Assayas, Starring Eva Green [Cannes Review]

Nikola Grozdanovic

May 27, 2017 1:09 pm

News, Reviews

True story: a great film director has somehow managed to turn a project full of promise into a suffocated, bloated and achingly frustrating thriller. Roman Polanski directs “Based on a True Story” like a man us...

The Essentials: The Films of James Gray

Nikola Grozdanovic and Jessica Kiang

April 13, 2017 11:17 am

Features, News

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Every serious director has his or her distinct storytelling panache: Quentin Tarantino and his jukebox of unapologetic homages, Christopher Nolan and his massive scales, Terrence Malick and his plotless streams...

The Best Cinematography Of 2016

Nikola Grozdanovic and Jessica Kiang

December 20, 2016 2:59 pm

Features

As we slowly and eagerly await the end of a year that history will squint back on forever, we can take some solace in knowing that it hasn’t been completely devoid of good things. And if you’ve been following o...

The 50 Best And Most Exciting Cinematographers Working Today

Jessica Kiang, Oliver Lyttelton and Nikola Grozdanovic

November 10, 2016 3:12 pm

Features

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It's always good to be reminded that there are good and beautiful things in this world. And on days when the world feels particularly ugly, such reminders can feel vitally necessary. Of course, the craft of the...

The 25 Best Performances In Horror Movies

Nikola Grozdanovic

October 31, 2016 12:02 pm

Features

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It’s the witching hour, and we’re just in time to serve you our final frightening dish in our Halloween-themed horror banquet. We’ve discussed the best of the genre from the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and this cent...

Jim Jarmusch’s Documentary ‘Gimme Danger’ Is Essential Viewing For Stooges Fans [Review]

Nikola Grozdanovic

October 26, 2016 5:29 pm

Reviews

This is a reprint of our review from the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It's a little weird that "touching" is the first word to come to mind after watching "Gimme Danger," considering it's a documentary about i...

15 Visually Stunning Horror Films

Nikola Grozdanovic

October 20, 2016 2:38 pm

Features

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Continuing our onslaught of horror features in the name of Halloween (here's The 15 Best Found Footage Horror Films Ever; Best Horror Films of the 1970s; Best Horror Films of the 1980s; The 25 Best Foreign Lang...

The 25 Best Horror Films Of The 1980s

Oliver Lyttelton, Jessica Kiang and Nikola Grozdanovic

October 18, 2016 1:26 pm

Features

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With October being the spookiest month, we’ve been placing a particular focus on the horror genre in the weeks leading up to Halloween —we’ve already looked at the best Foreign Language Horror movies, and last ...

Jonas Cuaron’s ‘Desierto’ Starring Gael Garcia Bernal Offers Empty Thrills [Review]

Nikola Grozdanovic

October 10, 2016 5:13 pm

Reviews

"Welcome to the land of the free." Words that echo throughout "Desierto" as soon as they're spoken, not least because of who says them, and when. They bounce around the hollow chambers of this bare-bones narrat...

Author Nikola Grozdanovic