A leading figure of South Korean cinema and winner of the Best Picture at the 2020 Academy Awards, Bong Joon-ho is one of the most original directors working today. He is that rare type of filmmaker who has achieved mainstream success while remaining a respected auteur among critics. His films are inhabited by dichotomies [...]
Throughout the twentieth century, Argentine cinema reflected the waves that afflicted the socio-political landscape with periods like the Golden Age era and New Cinema that paralleled government upheaval, oscillating between increased liberalism and heavy censorship. The 1970s had scarred the nation, a period referred to as “la guerra sucia” (the dirty war) where political [...]
I was watching the BBC’s His Dark Materials (2019) and whilst I mostly enjoyed the story, acting and other aspects of the drama, one question kept coming up; where are the characters’ dæmons? For those unaware of the YA book series by Philip Pullman, the Northern Lights (1995), which the majority of the [...]
Marriage Story, Baumbach’s second treatise on divorce, demonstrates, Baumbach asserted in a recent Guardian interview, that to take sides is folly. The film, to his credit, is admirably diplomatic in its execution. A couple, once in love, now bitterly fight over custody as a woman finds her voice and a man desperately clings to [...]
Emerging out of the independent aesthetic of 1990s American indie cinema, mumblecore described a newfound focus on the real, the natural, and the young. Loosely grouping a style of film made from 2002 to the present day, the launch of mumblecore was both aesthetically and culturally meaningful, signifying a shift in what was important [...]
