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    • On the Role and Power of Film Criticism

      On the Role and Power of Film Criticism

      For Martin Heidegger, the role of linguistic poetry is in preserving the primordial poetry of language. “Other modes of poetry, such as visual arts and architecture, only occur within the clearing of beings, which is opened by language.”[1] In Heidegger’s words: “Building and plastic creation, on the other hand, happen, always and only, in the […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      June 22, 2020
      Shifting the Perspective: Essays on Cinema
      Film Criticism, Film Criticism Definition, Film Theory and Criticism, Heidegger Movies, Heidegger quotes, Modes of Film Criticism, Sculpture in Cinema, Visual Arts Meaning, What is Film Criticism
    • Early Spring (Zagreb, Croatia; May 1st, 2020)

      Early Spring (Zagreb, Croatia; May 1st, 2020)

      To keep this blog film-related, I decided that the title of each subsequent post dealing with my experiences after the Zagreb earthquake, and the destruction of my home, will be the film title of a great film I love, with a symbolic undertone. For this post, I chose Yasujirō Ozu’s Early Spring. Although it is […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      May 1, 2020
      Author’s Personal Writings
      Art, Essay, Ideas, Inspiration, Life, Literature, Passion, Romanticism, Spring, Symbolism, Writing
    • Transgression of the Sexual Taboo in Nagisa Oshima’s “In the Realm of the Senses”

      Transgression of the Sexual Taboo in Nagisa Oshima’s “In the Realm of the Senses”

        The concept of “obscenity” is tested when we dare to look at something that we desire to see but have forbidden ourselves to look at. When we feel that everything has been revealed, “obscenity” disappears and there is a certain liberation. When that which one had wanted to see isn’t sufficiently revealed, however, the […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      February 27, 2020
      Cinema of Japan, East Asian cinema, Nagisa Oshima
      Applied Anthropology, Censorship, Georges Bataille, Japanese New Wave, Movie Censorship, Movie Censorship and American Culture, Pornographic Film, Sexual Perversion, Sexual Revolution
    • In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Words: The Danger of Symbolism in Imagery

      In Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Words: The Danger of Symbolism in Imagery

      “What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      February 20, 2020
      In the Words of the Director
      Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes, Fritz Lang Die Nibelungen, German Folk Tales, German History Films, German Mythology, German Nationalism, German Nationalism After WW1, German Propaganda Cinema, Nazi Propaganda, Nazi Propaganda Movies, Romantic Movement
    • David Lynch’s “Lost Highway” as the Painting of A Lost Mind

      David Lynch’s “Lost Highway” as the Painting of A Lost Mind

      The camera is focused on a highway, its yellow stripes are passing by rapidly, and Bowie’s song I’m Deranged is playing; a highly suggestive introduction into the film. In the opening shot, we see a man smoking a cigarette, by carefully following the narrative throughout the film, we can recollect that he is in death […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      February 16, 2020
      Cinema of the World, David Lynch, Great American Directors
      Erotic Scenes in Movies, Lost Highway Hotel, Lynch’s Surrealism, Movie Essay, Patricia Arquette in Lost Highway, Schopenhauer and Lynch, Surrealist Cinema, Surrealist Movies, The Mystery Man Explained
    • Céline Sciamma’s Study of Eurydice’s Gaze in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

      Céline Sciamma’s Study of Eurydice’s Gaze in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

      At the beginning of the film, we see a paintress conversing with her students, and in the background, there is a picture they brought, but they should not. The painting portrays a grayish landscape, and a woman with her dress on fire, slowly walking towards it centre, so it seems. The majority of the painting […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      February 8, 2020
      Cinema of the World, European cinema, French cinema
      Celine Sciamma Films, Lady on Fire Meaning, Love Symbolism, Orpheus and Eurydice Symbolism, Portrait of A Lady on Fire Review, Queer Cinema, Queer Cinema Films, Sacred and Profane Music, Vivaldi Summer in Movies
    • 5 Films Portraying the Fall of 20th-century Empires and Dictatorships

      5 Films Portraying the Fall of 20th-century Empires and Dictatorships

      This list deals with two Asian emperors who lost their empire in the course of their lives, the Chinese Emperor Puyi and the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, and two totalitarian leaders Hitler and Stalin. The first lost his totalitarian empire before he died, while the second died of natural causes and his legacy was swiftly replaced, […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      January 30, 2020
      Uncharted Territory: Film Lists
      Adolf Hitler in Movies, Death of Stalin Movie, Emperors Cinema, Hirohito Role in WW2, Hitler in Movies, Movies About Puyi, Movies Historical Drama, Movies Historical Fiction, Movies Historical War, Movies Political Satire
    • In Robert Bresson’s Words: Life as a Stage and Life as a Dream

      In Robert Bresson’s Words: Life as a Stage and Life as a Dream

      Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction etc…) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create. Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer Robert Bresson, a French director who gave us many masterpieces, Au Hasard Balthazar, […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      January 26, 2020
      In the Words of the Director
      Andrei Tarkovsky Bergman, Bresson Bergman Tarkovsky, Film and Theatre similarities, Film and Theatre Studies, Nietzsche Euripides, Robert Bresson Notes on the Cinematographer, Stanley Kubrick Directors Chair, Tarkovsky Cinematography, Tarkovsky Sacrifice Analysis
    • The Nameless God: Ingmar Bergman’s Mythical Tale “The Virgin Spring”

      The Nameless God: Ingmar Bergman’s Mythical Tale “The Virgin Spring”

        Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring is an adaptation of a thirteen century Swedish ballad. Christanity became a state religion in Sweden in the twelfth century, while the process of Christianization of Sweden began roughly in the ninth century. This means that the tale we witness on the screen, portrays an age in which Christianity […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      January 24, 2020
      Cinema of the World, European cinema, Great Swedish Directors, Ingmar Bergman, Swedish cinema
      Christianity, Cinematography, Essay, Ethics, Ideas, Movies, Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Writing
    • In Federico Fellini’s Words: Movies = Dreams

      In Federico Fellini’s Words: Movies = Dreams

      Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream. Federico Fellini […]

      Vigour of Film Lines

      January 17, 2020
      In the Words of the Director
      Art, Cinema, Dream, Ideas, Literature, Philosophy, Quotes, Writing
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