the set of the noteworthy arts documents
Kubrick’s name has permanently stuck in the history of cinema, because the director of his projects completely changed the whole film industry! From science fiction to some anti-war drama. Kubrick’s work features original and fast mounting transitions, strong panning motion and scaling, and the use of classical music as a soundtrack (sometimes he even built archetypes of his characters around this music).
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was found to be nearly complete in Buenos Aires in 2008. This find not only brought back long-lost footage that brought the movie closer to its Berlin debut in 1927, but it also brought back the design of intertitles that were assumed to have been lost forever. The most significant of these,…
She directed 36 films, including the acclaimed “Cléo de 5 à 7.” Her cinematographic work earned her various honors, including the Palme of Honour and Academy Honorary Award
As a director, Pasolini presented a depressing reality through picaresque neorealism. A large number of people objected to such representations in works of art intended for general consumption. The 1962 film Mamma Roma, which starred Anna Magnani and told the tale of a prostitute and her kid, was offensive to the prevailing moral standards of…
November 2 is the birthday of Luchino Visconti. We review the filmography of one of the most controversial directors—film classics. Visconti is now regarded as a classic of the world culture of the twentieth century, which has done a lot not only for the cinema, but also for the drama theater, and the opera stage,…
At over forty years old, Michelangelo Antonioni made his feature film debut with Cronaca di un amore (1950), a movie that already included elements that would later come to characterize his style: psychological analysis, the topic of the bourgeoisie’s crisis. In I vinti (1952), interest in the inner life comes back with an overwhelming intensity….
When is a Hitchcock film not a Hitchcock film, but in reality a Hitchcock film? “Jamaica Inn” is the answer; on the surface, it appears to be just another period piece with a clumsy introduction of all the main characters. Even with the outdated content and primitive special effects, it then picks up momentum as…
Like some other composers of the American stage, such as the famous Irving Berlin, Chaplin was an illiterate musician. There was even a term for “whistling composers”—they worked with secretaries. However, music played a essential role in the comedian’s life. He always created the score of his films using not only his own material. He…