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Satyajit Ray - THE HERO at Berlinale
Satyajit Ray – THE HERO at Berlinale

Legend of the Berlindale Film Festival, Satyajit Ray’s award-winning 1966 Indian drama The Hero (Nayak) showcases the filmmaker’s talents.

Martin Scorsese & The Art Of The Cameo

As fun as it might be to play a game of spot-the-Scorsese, it’s worth looking at each cameo with a more analytic lens. Read on to find out more.

A Grimm Tale: The Brilliant Over-Stimulation Of Wayne Kramer's RUNNING SCARED
A Grimm Tale: The Brilliant Over-Stimulation Of Wayne Kramer’s RUNNING SCARED

Even if another never gets made, Running Scared deserves to be considered a great one-off in the world of vulgar auteurism.

Anarchic Cinema: Jean Vigo's ZERO FOR CONDUCT
Anarchic Cinema: Jean Vigo’s ZERO FOR CONDUCT

On numerous conscious and subconscious levels, Jean Vigo’s Zero for Conduct is one of the most honest examinations of humanity and human society yet made in cinematic form. That is Anarchic Cinema.

Casey Neistat
Do What You Can’t: YouTube Filmmaking & Casey Neistat

Casey Neistat is raising the bar of YouTube filmmaking, leading a new generation of creators that are democratizing the process of filmmaking.

A Quick Guide To Auteur Theory

In this film theory piece, we discuss auteur theory, the film theory that states the director is the supreme reigning artist of their work.

How Wes Anderson Is Influenced By The Peanuts
How Wes Anderson Is Influenced By The Peanuts

A distinctive and imaginative style plays a part in every Wes Anderson film. His influences range from French New Wave films to Jacques Cousteau’s books and films. One influence in particular intrigues me:

Sofia Coppola on the set of The Bling Ring, photographed by Andrew Durham, 2012
The Beginner’s Guide: Sofia Coppola, Director

It seems strange that a body of work which has largely focused on the female experience without pontificating, should prove to be so contentious. And yet, Sofia Coppola’s viewers seem to fall largely within two extremes: the devoted and the apathetic.

The Beginner’s Guide: Nicolas Winding Refn, Director

One of the most controversial directors currently working today, Nicolas Winding Refn is a provocative force to be reckoned with. He has an utterly distinctive voice that couldn’t ever be mistaken for anybody else. Each of his films is widely divisive, almost always opening to heated opinion from audiences.

The Beginner’s Guide: Tim Burton, Director

There are a number of directors that have distinguished their own unique imagination into Hollywood and reflected it on the big screen. Directors who are considered ‘auteurs’ have the creative ability to make feature films that are based on their own imagination, are part of their personalities, or which they find as a genuine interest. One such example is Tim Burton, the eccentric filmmaker who broke through as an animator and storyboard artist in the 1970s to progressively becoming one of cinema’s most recognised directors.

The Hateful Eight
THE HATEFUL EIGHT: Tarantino’s 8th Masterpiece in the Making?

As 2015 comes to a close, the promises of 2016 in film leave excitement fizzling like the fireworks of New Year amongst Quentin Tarantino fans. We have been treated to an influx of releases ripe from the mind of the divisive director over the past few years, with Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained providing much controversy and dividing many opinions, but it is The Hateful Eight that is now beginning to incite anticipation about its January release. But, as this excitement grows towards the end of Tarantino’s twenty-fourth year in the filmmaking business, the success he enjoys now has progressed in an initially unexpected way.

David Lynch
The Beginner’s Guide: David Lynch, Director

David Lynch has one of the most polarizing bodies of work in Hollywood (though he is objectively one of the nicest and most genuine people there). His films divide audiences like they were born of a marriage between Moses and Solomon. Filled with peculiar idiosyncrasies and defiantly flaunting conventions of both genre and narrative, Lynch’s films have been stubborn in their consistency for most of his career.

Alfred Hitchcock
The Beginner’s Guide: Alfred Hitchc*ck, Director

British director Alfred Hitchc*ck’s reputation as the “Master of Suspense” is still familiar to moviegoers around the world 25 years after his death. Hitchc*ck’s jowly visage and drawling accent are pop culture fixtures, and his movies are endlessly imitated and even spun-off into popular TV series. However, Hitchc*ck was more than just the man who gave the world Norman Bates and that infamous shower scene in Psycho (1960).

Beasts of the Southern Wild
The American Southern: The Birth of a Modern Independent Film Genre

“These men who bust their asses work like dogs. And I believe in them, but every day they hurt. They get old, they peel back…