Crisis creates art and prosperity leads to tastelessness. This has recurred throughout history. The most recent example was how mortgage fraud of the late 1990s/early 2000s and the United States housing bubble of 2001-2005 coincided with the rising popularity of reality TV. Reality TV features people whose own privileged lives share little to no resemblance …
Just when I had finally decided to place a razorblade on my wrist to flee reality and end existential depressions, news broke that the 5th season of the Fargo series comes with the most thrilling TV lawyer since Saul Goodman. Man seeks hope, so I pushed the blade back into the rose soap one last …
Darren Aronofsky has an ability to delve into the universe of complex themes and create stories that are packed with metaphors and symbolism. His darkly attractive style of lucid despondency and furious intentions has made his cinema one of the most uniquely inspiring and eclectic in contemporary film. Mother! (2017), reached a new and fresh …
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev Andrey Zvyagintsev is one of Russia’s most fierce and unique contemporary directors. Through acclaimed films like The Return (2003), The Banishment (2007) and Elena (2001), he has used a series of blissful audiovisual and thematic ingredients: the movement of a camera that embraces an imposing stage, the role of nature and religion …
He first made a name for himself as a script-writer by copying works from two great directors of the time Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, changing the names of the characters and some situations and presented them to his father as his own works, which made his father believe he was a genius. From …
Director: Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman, born in 1918 and raised in the town of Uppsala in Sweden, was the son of a nurse and a strict Lutheran minister and chaplain. The brilliant director grew up in a highly religious universe, but later stated that his faith vanished at the age of eight. Bergman wrote in …
(This is an early interview from 1997 that Güldal Kızıldemir did for the Turkish newspaper Radikal. Translation by Saliha Enzenauer) “States like meaninglessness and melancholy can only be melted in a transcendental value. Art is one of these values.” Nuri Bilge Ceylan You received two big awards so far for your first feature film, The …
John Carpenter doesn’t know that his glorious theme to “The End“ is leading a parallel existence in Turkey. It is detached from the horror genre which is no thing over there, but serves as rape music in many films. More precisely, as the onset to an indicated and invisible rape after a K.O. pill was …
There are two kinds of conspiracies- those of events like John F. Kennedy’s murder or 9/11, which to this day remain highly suspicious and factually left too many questions open for the countless scientists and historians on the search for truth. Such conspiracies are valid, since history is full of lies and collusion by two …
Director: Alfonso Cuarón Throughout the history of cinema, some of the most acclaimed directors have given in to the temptation of capturing their childhood memories on celluloid. That’s the case with François Truffaut and his The 400 Blows (1959), Ingmar Bergman with Fanny and Alexander (1982) or Federico Fellini with Amarcord (1973). In 2018, the …
