Pygmalion and Galatea at Marienbad. Meaning of art in Alain Resnais’s “Last year at Marienbad” The 1960s were a very special time in the history of cinema. During this decade, especially in…
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Shohei Imamura, a very politically conscious film-maker and one of the key figures of Japanese New Wave, once said: “I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human…
Sergio Leone’s directorial debut is an ambitious, if unrefined, production that’s much inferior to his finest works but The Colossus of Rhodes (Il Colosso di Rodi) still manages to create moments of…
Il Posto [1961] – A Masterful Study of Human Condition in a Compartmentalized World I felt an aching realization while watching Ermanno Olmi’s Il Posto (aka ‘The Job’ or ‘Sound of Trumpets’,…