Too little can be anticipated from a film that sets for itself the humongous task of depicting unfettered human impulses. The 1966 Danish film Hunger (adapted from Knut Hamsun’s critically acclaimed novel…
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Rarely, you find adaptations that do justice to the author’s vision. The Face of Another (1966) is one such exception because the director Hiroshi Teshigahara is an auteur. The world he creates…
Persona is a 1966 horror psychological drama directed by Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. The story revolves around an actress named Elizabeth who during a live performance of ‘Electra’ becomes mute and is…
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…
At a moral level, I don’t think we have any lesson to learn from Europe Ousmane Sembene Senegalese author, screenwriter, and director Ousmane Sembene was one of the first sub-Saharan African…
The mention of the word ‘spaghetti western’ immediately makes us think of the name The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) and the visual of complex anti-heroes spreading out around the circular…