Frank Krutnik identifies three types of noirs that feature a male protagonist in a certain form of masculinity. There is the man as a professional (most likely in a respectable job like…
Postmodernity in Films The postmodern condition as Jameson describes it is that of a temporal schizophrenia and a spatial pastiche. This postmodern condition comes from postmodernity as an aesthetic determined by the…
Ingmar Bergman wrote the screenplay for Persona (1966) while he was in the hospital recovering from physical illness and was also being treated for depression, as a way of keeping himself in…
A lot of films about mental health, especially those that feature lead characters who are suffering from depression or anxiety, tend to focus on solely the internal struggles and conflicts that the…
Cléo from 5 to 7 (by Agnès Varda) follows the life of a Parisian singer named Cléo between the hours of 5pm and 7pm on the first day of summer, on a Tuesday…
Wong Kar Wai’s Fallen Angels (1995) is one of his most underrated films. Raw and grainy, in its literal and figurative sense, it provides an insight into the beginnings of a mind that gave us the smooth and sentimental In The Mood For Love (2001). The maturity with which the latter film dealt with the emotion of longing and heartache came from a far more aggressive and painful portrayal of the same in the earlier movie, and I believe this transition is proof that artistic trademarks can be reborn again and again.