From Escape to Understanding: My Journey into True Cinema
For a long time, cinema was not a discipline, not an art form, not a field I studied with seriousness. […]
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Elio Petri: The Maverick Voice of Italian Political Cinema
As someone who has spent decades chasing the ghosts of Italian cinema through smoky repertory theaters and late-night VHS marathons,
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The Baroque Delirium of Juraj Jakubisko: Beyond the “Slovak Fellini” Label
There are filmmakers whose names become shorthand for entire eras—Bergman for existential introspection, Fellini for carnivalesque memory, Tarkovsky for poetic
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Yu Hyun-mok: The Poet of Korean Realism and Cinema’s Conscience
There’s a moment in Yu Hyun-mok’s “Obaltan” where the protagonist, Cheolho, sits in a taxi, blood dripping from his mouth
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Shin Sang-ok: The Prince Who Shaped Korea’s Golden Age of Cinema
When we speak of Korean cinema’s golden age, we inevitably arrive at the towering figure of Shin Sang-ok—a director whose
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Marco Bellocchio: The Radical Poet of Italian Cinema
A Master’s Uncompromising Vision Across Six Decades When Marco Bellocchio burst onto the international film scene in 1965 with Fists
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Michael Cacoyannis: The Greek Master Who Brought the Spirit of Hellenic Drama to World Screens
Michael Cacoyannis (1922–2011) is one of the most significant filmmakers to emerge from Greece—yet calling him merely a “Greek filmmaker”
The Flesh-and-Marble Spectacle: Revisiting the Grandeur and Grit of Sword-and-Sandal Films
Of all the cinematic genres that have captured the public’s imagination, few are as grand in scale, as primal in
Sergio Corbucci: The Master of Spaghetti Westerns and Italian Cinema’s Unsung Hero
Introduction Sergio Corbucci, often dubbed “the other Sergio” in reference to his more famous contemporary Sergio Leone, stands as one
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