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2011 BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR (50 Titles)
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During 2011 Signals bought just over 700 new movies. It was not the best year with a splurge of average blockbusters, but the European and Asian film markets were more promising. Here is a list of our Top 50 Best Movies of 2011 (alphabetical order) which includes a mixture of Best Hollywood and Foreign Box Office releases. This 50 titles is the must-see movies of 2011, even though there are many other great titles. You may browse through this list and see if you would like to add anything to your Rental Q. You definitely will not be disappointed.
It was not the best year with a splurge of average blockbusters, while the Europe and Asian markets have been more promising. Here is the Top 50 biggest movies of 2011 from US and Foreign Box Office.
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2012 BEST MOVIES SO FAR! (50 Titles)
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The Best Movies of 2012 So Far!
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80's VIDEO NASTIES (NOW UNBANNED & UNCUT) (44 Titles)
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Video nasty" was a term coined in the United Kingdom in the 1980s that originally applied to a number of films distributed on video cassette that were criticized for their violent content by various religious organizations.While violence in cinema have been censored for many years, the lack of a regulatory system for video cassette sales combined with the claim that any film could fall into children's hands led to new levels of concern. Many of these "video nasties" were low-budget horror films produced in Italy and the United States. The UK's Video Recordings Act 1984 which imposed a stricter code of censorship on videos than was required for cinema release resulted in many of these films being banned on video cassette in many countries including South Africa. Now for the very first time, after many years, these films have been unbanned, digitally restored and released on DVD uncut.
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AKIRA KUROSAWA COLLECTION (11 Titles)
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Akira Kurosawa was an unsuccessful painter who turned to making movies in Japan in the late 1930s. He got the attention of the rest of the world in 1951, with Rashomon, his first of many films to star Toshiro Mifune. Several of Kurosawa's samurai films have been turned into westerns, including Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, and George Lucas has said that his film Star Wars was inspired by Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. By the end of his career Kurosawa had come to be regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, in a career spanning 57 years of Japan's greatest directors.
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ALEXANDRE AJA COLLECTION (5 Titles)
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Alexandre Aja (born 7 August 1978) is a French film director who rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film Haute Tension (known as Switchblade Romance in the UK). American director Wes Craven asked Aja to come up with a concept for the remake of his 1977 film The Hills Have Eyes after seeing Switchblade Romance. His next project was a horror film entitled Mirrors, about a mysterious mirror that brings out the worst aspects of people whenever they look at themselves in it. The film is a remake of the K-Horror film Into the Mirror. Aja directed Piranha 3-D, a horror movie about prehistoric piranhas in Arizona. It is a remake of the film Piranha. In 2004, Aja was named to the Variety – Ten Directors To Watch list. He is a member of the so-called Splat Pack, a term coined by film historian Alan Jones in "Total Film" magazine for a new wave of directors making brutally violent horror films. The other Splat Pack members are Darren Lynn Bousman, Neil Marshall, Greg Mclean, Eli Roth, James Wan, Leigh Whannell, and Rob Zombie.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK COLLECTION (9 Titles)
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Sir Alfred Hitchcock, (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English filmmaker and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. Over a career spanning more than half a century, Hitchcock fashioned for himself a distinctive and recognisable directorial style. He pioneered the use of a camera which moves in a way meant to mimic a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to maximise anxiety, fear, or empathy, and used innovative film editing. His stories frequently feature fugitives on the run from the law alongside "icy blonde" female characters. Many of Hitchcock's films have twist endings and thrilling plots featuring depictions of violence, murder, and crime, although many of the mysteries function as decoys or "MacGuffins" meant only to serve thematic elements in the film and the extremely complex psychological examinations of the characters. Hitchcock's films also borrow many themes from psychoanalysis and feature strong sexual undertones. The magazine MovieMaker has hailed him as the most influential filmmaker of all-time, and he is widely regarded as one of cinema's most significant artists.
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ANTHONY MANN COLLECTION (10 Titles)
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Anthony Mann (June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) first made his name as director of several film noir, but is probably best remembered today for his distinctive and highly influential work in the Western genre - particularly with James Stewart. Mann depicted the old west as a hostile, violent and amoral world in which no one can be trusted and life is cheap. In a marked contrast to the black-and-white value systems and the simple, stoic and uncomplicated heroes generally associated with westerns up to that point, Stewart's protagonists are flawed and, at times, morally ambiguous. Typically they are grim, embittered characters, driven by an obsessive quest to avenge a wrong done to them, and capable of the most ruthless and unflinching violence in pursuit of this end.The Mann-Stewart films were critical and commercial successes and had a major impact on western-making generally, which grew notably darker and more "adult" in its themes, tone and content from the mid-1950s onward. An early and very pertinent example of Mann's influence on the genre lies in John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers (1956).
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ASIAN HORROR COLLECTION (34 Titles)
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Japanese horror, is Japanese contributions to horror fiction in popular culture, noted for their unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre in light of western treatments. Japanese horror tends to focus on psychological horror and tension building (anticipation), particularly involving ghosts and poltergeists, while many contain themes of folk religion such as: possession, exorcism, shamanism, precognition, and yōkai. The success of the 1998 film Ring brought the image of the yūrei to Western popular culture for the first time, although the image has existed in Japan for centuries. Korean horror features many of the same motifs, themes, and imagery as Japanese horror. Korean horror has been around since the early years of Korean cinema; however, it wasn't until the late 1990's that the genre began to experience a renewal. Many of the Korean horror films tend to focus on the suffering and the anguish of characters rather than focus on the gory "blood and guts" aspect of horror.
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BAZ LUHRMANN COLLECTION (4 Titles)
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Baz Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!. In 2008, he released his film Australia, starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. Luhrmann's next project is an adaptation of The Great Gatsby, to be shot on 3D, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby, Carey Mulligan as Daisy Buchanan, and Tobey Maguire as Nick Carraway.
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BEST 10 HORROR MOVIES YOU HAVE'NT SEEN (10 Titles)
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Collection of greatest horror films ever made and most people have not heard of them.
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