Tag: Cinematography
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Black Horse [Poem from the Yet Unpublished Book of Verses]
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Black horse in golden chains/ in the middle of the main square lies…
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Catholic and Pagan Heart of Fellini’s Eternal Rome
I have hung up my heart―both Catholic and Pagan―as an ex-voto between the obelisk of the Trinità and the column of the Conception. Andrea Sperelli in Gabriele D’Annunzio’s “The Child of Pleasure”
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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…
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January – Black and White European Cinema Month
The first article I have published this year on this site was about a contemporary black-and-white Hungarian film Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), with the title “A Mortal God”. In this article, I explored the apocalyptic symbolism behind a decaying whale, and the pessimist philosophy of cosmic proportions presented in the film. Later, another article about a…
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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…
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