Dieter Enzenauer (78) was a production assistant and personal assistant for the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He worked on several classics of the New German Cinema, such as Nora Helmer (1974), Martha (1974), and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974). We met for a conversation in Cologne. You started to work for Fassbinder in …
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos “Lobsters are lonely animals. They stay among the rocks during the day to avoid predators, and venture out at night in search of food. Lobsters rarely interact with each other. When introduced into a community, lobsters obtain a certain social hierarchy. This social system plays an important role when the mating season …
Borderline homoerotic action-packed male bonding particularly when centered exclusively on a Caucasian/African American coupling epitomized Tinseltown’s interpretation and endorsement of progressivism in the Eighties. The Exterminator not only jumpstarted an entire decade of vigilante justice-meets-cultural acceptance, it deftly morphed each component into one storyline of carnage, sexual deviation, torture, and friendship. Its controversial near-X rated …
Director: Luis Buñuel Luis Buñuel is remembered as one of the most interesting, influential and renowned film directors of the 20th century. The Spanish filmmaker born in the city of Calanda enjoyed a very privileged childhood, which was always sheltered in the lap of his wealthy family. After receiving a strict catholic education, Buñuel concluded …
The Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni was a survivor of an era, one in which enthusiastic experimentation could still be combined with thoughtful sequences. Antonioni is a fundamental auteur in the evolution of 20th century European cinema, his initial Neorealist techniques were modeled and enriched by the study of different social classes, especially the alienated bourgeoisie. …
#7 Malcolm McDowell & Christine Noonan My fellow Sex Gourmets, today we take a look at Lindsay Anderson’s classic ‘If…’ (1968). Here, we have a rare exemplary of a sex scene managing the impossible limbo between half-way hinted sex and a pure animalistic attack. The semester has just started at one of the renowned grey …
Director: Ken Loach It’s fierce, an’ it’s wild, an’ it’s not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that’s why it’s great. Ken Loach was born in the city of Nuneaton, England. He has earned a special place among the most interesting and thought-provoking directors of the British film scene. When the audience …
Director: Michael Haneke Born in Munich in 1942, Austrian director Michael Haneke has consolidated in recent times as one of the greatest exponents of European cinema. Renowned for his gloomy and disturbing style, Haneke delves into the dark human nature and the discomfort that it produces, and he often takes violence as a starting point. …
#1 Julie Christie & Donald Sutherland There is nothing more satisfying and enjoyable than seeing sex translate well on screen. After watching many actors lock crotches and dance the dance, finding that one scene that stands out above the others is actually quite a hard task! How many times have we seen the classic throw …
The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has become essential within the art cinema, his films are characterized by exploring obsessions such as alienation and disorientation produced by a gap between language and reality, the robotic repetition of social conventions , dystopia, and the use of catharsis as an escape route. There is no better way to …
