Georgian film is more than 110 years old with its pioneer director Vasil Amashukeli who started making short documentaries back in 1908. In 1912 Amashukeli shot the first full-length documentary in the…
Tag: Italian Neo-Realism
Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist masterpiece, Bicycle Thieves (1948) opens in front of a freshly reconstructed government building with a crowd of city’s skilled yet unemployed laborers. The story’s central character after getting…
Film-maker and screenwriter Paul Schrader in his remarkable introduction essay to the new edition of his seminal film theory text, ‘Trascendental Style in Film’, asserts that: “Roberto Rossellini deserves a special mention…
Censorship has been a constant factor in Iranian cinema: either to curb criticism against the regime’s ideological stand or to banish what’s considered as ‘loose sense of morals’. Cultural and political context…
