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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
For the past thirty years, it is evident that the weirdest and most surreal place in cinema emerges from the mind of David Lynch. Since his debut film, the strange and avantgarde Eraserhead (1977), much of Lynch’s output has been the perfect fuel for nightmares: mutated creatures, bizarre murder mysteries, fractured psyches, disturbing dreams, etc. Before …
Melancholia is a very special film for me, coming from my favorite director in cinema, the Danish Lars von Trier. The story begins with the opera “Tristan und Isolde“, by the legendary composer Richard Wagner. While we listen to it we see the space trajectory of a mysterious and unknown planet that is getting closer …
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan “Not seeing a man for what he is, idolizing him like a god, and then being mad at him, because he’s not a god. Do you think that’s fair?” Inspired by three short stories by Anton Chekhov and some of Dostoevsky’s writings, Winter Sleep is the most ambitious film by the …
A Woman Under the Influence is one of the most famous films directed by John Cassavetes, the father of American independent cinema. Cassavetes used to make his own films behind the back of the big industry and financed them with the earnings of his career as an actor. For this reason, he could afford to …
