While the very first examples of moving pictures were content with capturing
trains moving and foodstuffs degrading, the art form quickly developed into a
vehicle for a whole new world of entertainment possibilities.…Read More...
Sex And Zen initially came out back in the early ‘90s and managed to make quite
an impact on Hong Kong’s box office – a fact which paved the way for two
sequels. The series, loosely based on the 17th Century Chinese…Read More...
Following short films/visual essays such as Erni and Beijing Holiday, Austrian
born artist Edgar Honetschäger makes his first foray into feature length cinema
with AUN: The Beginning And The End Of All Things. Employing e…Read More...
Almodóvar’s debut, a provocative comedy about three bizarre women,
appalled critics across Spain and the USA. It was first shown at the San
Sebastian Film Festival and later acquired cult status in the…Read More...
One of Luc Besson’s earliest cinematic accomplishments, Nikita went on to spawn
an American and a Hong Kong remake, as well as various television shows in
different forms, the most recent featuring Maggie Q as the tit…Read More...
For Love’s Sake was screened as part of Derby QUAD’s Satori
Screen programme, a monthly evening showcasing East Asian cinema, on Friday
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Just when you thought that Scandinavia had been bled dry of all its TV drama,
along come more crime mysteries to entice the British public. Van Veeteren is a
series of TV films based on a popular series of novels by Swe…Read More...
Claude Chabrol’s New Wave drama Les Cousins re-visits the age old stereotypes
of the bad boy versus the nice guy. The world cinema film was made about a year
after Chabrol’s debut, Le Beau Serge, winning the Golden Bea…Read More...
Before her 2007 directorial debut, Julie Delpy was better known for her acting
abilities. Early in her career, Delpy was cast in films directed by two masters
of cinema: in 1985, her first role in a feature film was a cam…Read More...
Following the critical and commercial success of his first feature film, À Bout
De Soufflé (Breathless, 1960), Jean-Luc Godard quickly began work on his next
cinematic endeavour, with the eyes of the world fixed upon him…Read More...
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