Category: World Cinema
Performance – Victor Sjostrom in Wild Strawberries
Wild Strawberries is a film about coming to terms with old age and mortality. Following a day in the life of Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg who…
Feeling Blue: The deeply disturbing Perfect Blue
It’s hard to find the words to describe Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue, but I shall do my best to describe it. Perfect Blue is an…
Pan's Labyrinth defeats Amelie in the Filmotomy World Cup Final 2018
There is no official such party as the Film Integrated Soccer Association (FISA), but it exists as long as we can combine football / soccer…
Pauline à la plage: Yet Another Alluring Éric Rohmer Love Lesson
Éric Rohmer’s third Comédies et proverbes from the 1980s is yet another masterful grasp of the human language of, and lessons in, love. Pauline à la…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Dah
“[Abbas] Kiarostami gave the Iranian cinema the international credibility that it has today. But his films were unfortunately not seen as much in Iran. He…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Nove
“Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Ba
“Fans in China are very different from those overseas. In China, many people really love me and care about my life. But there is always…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Siedem
“You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn’t matter if you transport them to a world of intuition…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Sechs
“I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Besh
“If I had the body and the voice of an alpha male, it would be easier. It took nine years from leaving film school until…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Si
“When I was on The View, Barbara Walters was asking me about the blood and stuff, and I said, ‘Well, you know, that’s a staple…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Tria
“The heart-wrenching musical drama unfolds as (Costas) Ferris – a respected songwriter – uses the rembetiko as a source of pride amid the chaos. The…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Deux
“Abdellatif Kechiche is one of the greatest, most famous directors in France, and I love the trance-like feeling that you get with his cinema. I…
100 Explorations of World Cinema – Uno
“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life…
