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…
The most prolific serial killer in recorded history was a health worker. Charles Cullen confessed to having caused the death of forty patients during his career as a nurse in New Jersey. Investigations made it clear that the victims were more, and experts estimated that Cullen may ultimately have been responsible for four hundred deaths….
Wolfgang Knöpfler is an internationally experienced film producer, specialised in documentary filmmaking, who has worked across five continents, in over fifty countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Most of the projects he has been involved with were produced for major networks including National Geographic, WNET, PBS, Discovery, BBC and blue chip broadcasters in Germany, Austria, France…
Ticket To Paradise is a classic screwball comedy, written and directed by British filmmaker Ol Parker, known for the the 2018 musical film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. His new work banks upon the charisma of Hollywood actors Julia Roberts and George Clooney, who convey the eternal grandeur of American cinema. Divorced parents Georgia…
The Master of Horror, Italian director Dario Argento, ten years after his Dracula 3D returns with his latest thriller starring Ilenia Pastorelli, Andrea Zhang and his daughter Asia Argento. Dark Glasses was presented Out of Competition at the Berlinale 2022 and is going to be released by Shudder — AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for…
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