BREATHLESS
This cutting edge of the French New Wave struck like a bomb when it premiered – and it hasn’t aged... View Article
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BLOOD AND BLACK LACE
The giallo, Italy’s Pop-Gothic crime cinema with a somewhat harder horror edge than the German variety, is usually discussed as... View Article
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CARTE BLANCHE À KAIJA SAARIAHO
Among the French New Wave filmmakers, François Truffaut with his humane films became dearest to me over the years. To... View Article
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MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE
My Beautiful Laundrette was a breakthrough for many a prominent British filmmaker: it expanded Stephen Frears’s TV career to the... View Article
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STYLOGRAPHY OF CAMERA – THE FREESTYLE OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM
“What interests me in the cinema is abstraction” – Orson Welles The famous essay “The birth of a new avant-garde:... View Article
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SARABAND
Ingmar Bergman says in the introduction that the TV film Saraband shows four actors and ten monologues on the difficult... View Article
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SCREAMING EUROPE
At the beginning of this little adventure in European crime of the more Gothic variety stands a comment by valiant... View Article
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SAUNA
Finnish horror film is a very rare genre, and its traditions are more connected to historical myths and mysticism (such... View Article
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RIDER IN BLUE
Rider in Blue (Ryttare i blått) is the odd one out of Arne Mattsson’s five film series of Folke Mellvig-adaptations:... View Article
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THE CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH
Sakari Toiviainen has characterised Straub’s and Huillet’s film in the following way, “a documentary about music and musicians, making music... View Article
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