Ryusuke Hamaguchi optimally leverages the audio-visual medium of cinema and spun it delicately in a mystifying narrative to look at modern romance and relationships. Born in 1978, his debut film Passion (2008)…
Tag: Roberto Rossellini
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…
Roberto Rossellini’s Germany, Year Zero (‘Germania anna zero’, 1948) was the heartbreaking third and final film in the director’s neorealist war trilogy. Although the two previous films – Rome, Open City [1945]…
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…
