“Man is a political animal.” – Aristotle We don’t have to bother to go as far as Aristotle to realize that. Or do we? What is to be political? What is to be a political rebel? The films selected to illustrate this list should answer these questions, which goes beyond the mere act of watching […]
Author: Matheus Massias
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Controlled Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Melville was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, in Paris, France, in 1917, to a family of Alsatian Jews. During World War II he joined the French Resistance and adopted Melville as his nom de guerre after Herman Melville, his favorite American author. When the war was over, he decided to keep it. Prior to the war, […]
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Filmmaker Retrospective: The Vicious Cinema of Nicolas Winding Refn
Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Nicolas Winding Refn is one of the most prominent filmmakers in contemporary cinema, not only in his own country, but worldwide. He has made nine feature films up to this moment, all of them written and some produced by him. In Denmark, he may only be less regarded than Lars von […]