The filmmaker’s social realism was always suspicious of established power ~ Bleart Thaçi ~ Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr died on 6 January …
Béla Tarr (1955-2026)
Tag: Cinema
It’s the end of cinema as we know it… and I feel fine
Far from being a tragedy, the demise of the film industry should be celebrated ~ Andrew J Boyer ~ Netflix has proposed an $82.7bn (£62bn) deal to …
Critical Review: Solanas and Getino – Towards a Third Cinema
A libertarian look at the classic 1969 communist, anti-imperialist manifesto of Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino (also shown in their film The H…
Cinema and ideology: Dystopia at the end of capitalism
Spanish writers Teresa Cabrera Sánchez and Hugo Cuevas Soria consider the overwhelming negative futurism that characterises modern film.
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