Film is a medium that is able to capture history as it happened and preserve the images of the past. Hence, since its invention, it has been an instrumental means of recording the most important events of human history, especially the atrocities of war. Besides documenting however, film also offers the opportunity to construct entirely […]
Author: Melinda Gemesi
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The 20 Best French Films of The 21st Century
France has always been a trailblazer for European cinema. To begin with, it played a key role in the birth of film with the Lumière brothers’ shorts, while in the ‘20s it became prominent with the French Impressionist Cinema and in the late 50s a new generation of French directors arrived to turn everything upside […]
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The 20 Best Japanese Animated Movies of the 21st Century
Japanese anime are often about children, but they are certainly not primarily for a young audience. These films offer an insight into the subconscious of Japanese society. A country that during the Second World War believed in the irrefutable military power of the state and the myth of the “divine wind” –the self-sacrifice of the […]