The pioneer of New German Cinema ventures into the intricate realms of the mind. Werner Herzog, who recently turned 80 is receiving DOC NYC’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and at that same festival is presenting his latest work, Theater Of Thought. The documentary explores the various scientific facets of the human brain, from artificial intelligence to…
French-Tunisian director, screenwriter and producer Nadia El Fani has always been an advocate of freedom of expression throughout her cinematic work. She was born in Paris and moved with her family to her father’s homeland, Tunisia. El Fani began her filmmaking path as assistant director to the likes of Roman Polanski, Nouri Bouzid, Romain Goupil…
The Lamborghini name resonates in the hearts of automobile enthusiasts worldwide. Filmmaker Bobby Moresco — who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Crash in 2006, which he shared with co-writer Paul Haggis — traces the origins of the brand, by bringing to the silver screen a biopic about the founder of the…
“It was all started by a mouse,” are the famous words pronounced by Walt Disney when describing his career as an animator. The documentary directed by Jeff Malmberg and produced by Oscar-winning Morgan Neville, Mickey: The Story Of A Mouse, takes us back to the origins of that glorious character and his evolution through the…
Jonas Mekas is known worldwide as the “the godfather of American avant-garde cinema.” The story of the Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist is now crystallised in a beautiful documentary, directed by KD Davidson, that is part of the DOC NYC 2022 line-up. Fragments Of Paradise is divided into chapters that alternate original black and white…
Japan Society’s autumn programme features an inspiring array of films in collaboration with the National Film Archive of Japan, with the series The Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers from JAPAN CUTS and Beyond. A great classic of Japanese cinema is being shown in this occasion, in a new 4K restoration version. The picture is Conflagration (Enjō)…
Japan Society’s programmes are always in step with the times. A survey of the growing prominence and visibility of women in film, has given birth to the latest ACA Cinema Project series The Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers from JAPAN CUTS and Beyond focusing on the essential roles that women play from behind the camera in…
Niece of the great maestro Federico Fellini and daughter of actress Maddalena Fellini and Giorgio Fabbri, Francesca Fabbri Fellini is a film director and critic who hosted a weekly radio programme on the Italian radio station RTL, entirely devoted to cinema. Her short film La Fellinette, that tributes the oneiric work of her uncle, is…
Critically acclaimed theatre director Lila Neugebauer brings together on the big screen Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry in the film Causeway. This psychological drama written by Elizabeth Sanders, Luke Goebel, and Ottessa Moshfegh, follows the friendship and recovery of two individuals affected by trauma. The film, to be released on Apple TV+, had its…
This breathtaking blockbuster from South Asia is inspired by real Indian revolutionaries, although it takes abounding artistic license to convey a bombastically spectacularised hyperbole. RRR — that stands for “Rise, Roar, Revolt” — was produced in Tollywood, the part of Indian cinema that caters to the Telugu language. This is the main language used in…
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