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  • December 1, 2018

    In Wong Kar-wai’s Words: Film Genre As A Uniform

    In Wong Kar-wai’s Words: Film Genre As A Uniform

    I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform – you put yourself into a certain uniform. But if you dress up in a police officer’s uniform, it doesn’t mean that you are an officer; it can mean something else. But this is the starting point, and the best […]

  • November 27, 2018

    Mizoguchi’s “Sansho the Baillif”: Karl Marx in Heian Japan

    Mizoguchi’s “Sansho the Baillif”: Karl Marx in Heian Japan

    Kenji Mizoguchi’s Sanshô dayû is based on a folk tale taking place in the Heian period; Chinese and Buddhist influence, as well as the one of the Imperial power were at their summit. Mizoguchi is one of the greatest Japanese directors who created during the period of Japanese cinema which may very well be called its […]

  • November 18, 2018

    In Ingmar Bergman’s Words: Music and Film: Image of Poetic and Musical Erotic

    In Ingmar Bergman’s Words: Music and Film: Image of Poetic and Musical Erotic

    When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with […]

  • November 9, 2018

    The Psychology of Fascism in Bertolucci’s “The Conformist”

    The Psychology of Fascism in Bertolucci’s “The Conformist”

    Bernardo Bertolucci’s tour de force follows a fascist agent of the secret police whose assignment is to assassinate his former university professor. Set mostly in 1938., it doesn’t deal with broader societal aspects of the rulling regime, it is a study of a personality, Marcello’s, who willingly serves the fascist regime. When one of the […]

  • November 2, 2018

    In Pedro Almodóvar’s Words: Cinema as a Religion

    In Pedro Almodóvar’s Words: Cinema as a Religion

    The bad education I received at school was rectified when I went to the cinema. My religion became the cinema. Of course one could create one’s own belief system, and anything that helps or supports you in life can be seen as covering the function of religion. In that sense you could consider cinema my […]

  • October 21, 2018

    A Veiled Body: The Divided Self in Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence”

    A Veiled Body: The Divided Self in Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence”

    We question a country’s self-mythology. Perfect town and perfect family are – like Westerners – part of America’s mythology, involving notions of past innocence and naïveté. But is it possible for innocence to exist while something heinous transpires elsewhere? David Cronenberg In David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence something heinous transpires underneath the presentation of […]

  • October 8, 2018

    Celebration of Life’s Evening in Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth”

    Celebration of Life’s Evening in Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth”

    To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson We might add that this applies to the filmmakers like Paolo Sorrentino as well. Sorrentino portrays the holiness of days passing and the divine in men with particular […]

  • October 4, 2018

    Sins of the Father in the Melancholic Triumph “Manchester by the Sea”

    Sins of the Father in the Melancholic Triumph “Manchester by the Sea”

    A cynic would say that a razor blade should distributed alongside the DVD version of Manchester By The Sea, just like one music critic suggested regarding Leonard Cohen’s album Songs of Love and Hate. In that kind of reasoning there is a misunderstanding of the power of the melancholic experience when it is shown in […]

  • September 19, 2018

    Never Let Me Go (2010) – Path to Completion

    Never Let Me Go (2010) –  Path to Completion

      Title card: The breakthrough in medical science came in 1952. Doctors could now cure the previously incurable. By 1967, life expectancy passed 100 years. Never Let Me Go is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro; the film describes the dystopian reality which takes place more than 50 years before the film was made. […]

  • September 15, 2018

    Bloody Code in the Classic of Japanese Cinema “Harakiri”

    Bloody Code in the Classic of Japanese Cinema “Harakiri”

    Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri belongs to the jidaigeki genre (period piece). It follows the period shortly after the battle at Sekigahara and the establishemnt of the Tokugawa shogunate (1630). The film begins with a short exposition by the official of House Iyi, who talks about the everyday life of the samurai warlord. It is a perspective […]

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