The Cinematic Odyssey of Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an acclaimed American filmmaker, frequently hailed as the greatest American director of his era, who virtually reinvented…
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Aki Kaurismäki: Rebel, genius, or both?
“Cinema is dead. It died 1962, I think it was in October!”-Aki Kaurismäki Aki Kaurismäki is a legendary Finnish filmmaker,…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: Red (Trois Couleurs: Rouge)
The grand and majestic conclusion the Three Colours Trilogy, Red takes loosely connected lives and creates a masterful web of…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: White (Trois Couleurs: Blanc)
Considered an anti-comedy, and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s most straightforward and mainstream film, Three Colours: White, which deals with equality, is the…
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s: Three Colours: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu)
Three Colours: Blue is the first of last and finest of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski’s works, the Three Colours trilogy.…
Atom Egoyan: A brief note.
Atom Egoyan, (born July 19, 1960) is a critically acclaimed Armenian Canadian film maker, widely considered as one of the…
Stan Brakhage: A short introduction.
James Stanley Brakhage (1933-2003), was an American avant-garde, experimental filmmaker, who in a career spanning half a century and roughly…
Cinema and Eastern Culture/Identity in a Globalized World.
Such is the state of representation of eastern cultures, that while western world may admire typical aesthetics of these films,…
El Mariachi 1992 (Robert Rodriguez)
Robert Rodriguez isn’t exactly a nobody now, but this is 1992 and Robert Rodriguez is indeed a nobody. The film…
Csillagosok, katonák (1967) a.k.a The Red and The White.
Another, and more widely admired film of Hungarian director Miklos Jancso, this film concentrates on a group of Hungarian soldiers…