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Written from the viewpoint of a true mover and shaker of the Japanese movie
scene, this is a book that delivers detail in the extreme. From the pre-war
beginnings to post-war US occupation and on into 20th century…Read More...
Of the seventy-two films which appeared on the Department of Public
Prosecutions’ list of films deemed liable to “deprave and corrupt,” all
but one came from countries outside of the United Kingdom. The…Read More...
Anime has become a thriving media over the past three decades. Its popularity
ranges from some of the best known kids’ cartoon series to many of the greatest
in-demand video games. The art depicted in anime ranges from r…Read More...
Part of the BFI Screen Guides series, 100 Cult Films aims to provide an overview
of some of the greatest cult films to have ever hit screens across the globe.
Offering descriptions and in-depth analysis on a vast array of…Read More...
Louise Brooks was one of the most talented and iconic actresses ever to grace the
silver screen. Her work in the late 1920s with Austrian director G. W. Pabst was
largely ignored at the time, but was rediscovered by French fi…Read More...
Recent articles on this website have looked at the New Wave of French horror and
offered a retrospective of the ‘video nasties’ phenomenon. Following a
similar vein, I would like to consider a group of directors em…Read More...
In Defining Features, we look at the attributes of a certain director’s body of
work, to be precise, what specific and recurring qualities define a world cinema
director’s style and authorship over the span of their work.…Read More...
Arguably one of the most important and influential figures in contemporary
Japanese cinema, Shin’ya Tsukamoto is a director, actor, producer, writer,
editor and cinematographer best known for his groundbreaking T…Read More...
Alix Delaporte is winning worldwide critical acclaim for her first feature-length
film, the romantic drama Angel & Tony. Set among a tight-knit community of
Normandy fishermen, it stars Clotilde Hesme and Grégory Gadeb…Read More...
Relatively unknown outside of Japan, Shozin Fukui is an independent filmmaker
who’s secured a small international cult fan base through his work in Japan’s
extreme cyberpunk movement of the late-80s and ‘90s. However…Read More...
