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This cutting edge of the French New Wave struck like a bomb when it premiered – and it hasn’t aged... View Article
Read moreThis cutting edge of the French New Wave struck like a bomb when it premiered – and it hasn’t aged... View Article
Read moreThe giallo, Italy’s Pop-Gothic crime cinema with a somewhat harder horror edge than the German variety, is usually discussed as... View Article
Read moreAmong the French New Wave filmmakers, François Truffaut with his humane films became dearest to me over the years. To... View Article
Read moreMy Beautiful Laundrette was a breakthrough for many a prominent British filmmaker: it expanded Stephen Frears’s TV career to the... View Article
Read more“What interests me in the cinema is abstraction” – Orson Welles The famous essay “The birth of a new avant-garde:... View Article
Read moreIngmar Bergman says in the introduction that the TV film Saraband shows four actors and ten monologues on the difficult... View Article
Read moreAt the beginning of this little adventure in European crime of the more Gothic variety stands a comment by valiant... View Article
Read moreFinnish horror film is a very rare genre, and its traditions are more connected to historical myths and mysticism (such... View Article
Read moreRider in Blue (Ryttare i blått) is the odd one out of Arne Mattsson’s five film series of Folke Mellvig-adaptations:... View Article
Read moreSakari 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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