Animation, too often confined in the collective imagination to mere entertainment for children, is actually a medium of extraordinary depth and complexity. Since the dawn

Beyond the Peplum: The Definitive Guide to the Real Films About Ancient GreeceThe image we have of ancient Greece on the big screen is an

Cinema, when confronting the extreme environment of snow and ice, performs a profound narrative stripping. Cold is not merely a scenic element or a simple

Cinema has always treated France, and Paris in particular, as an ideal backdrop, a canvas of Hollywood grandeur and romance. However, for the critic seeking

The desert is not a place; it’s a concept. In mainstream cinema, that of large Hollywood productions, the desert is almost always an exotic and

Italy is the cinematic setting par excellence. An ideal set, perhaps the most recognizable in the world, capable of instantly evoking history, beauty, passion, and

Sicily is not an island. It is a cinematic continent. It is a common, lazy mistake to consider it a simple location, a picturesque backdrop

The forest, in our collective imagination, is never just a collection of trees. It is an idea. It is the “other” place, the liminal space

When one thinks of movies set in space, the mind inevitably leaps to the great star-faring sagas, the epic battles produced by major studios, and

When we think of the 1950s, the collective imagination, forged by decades of Hollywood cultural propaganda, evokes a specific image. It’s a pastel-colored picture, made

Forget the Shinjuku neon seen from a luxury hotel. Forget the zen postcards, the honorable samurai, and the “wa” (harmony) that mainstream Western cinema projects

When we think of “films set in Scotland,” the mind inevitably leaps to two extremes: Hollywood epic and gritty realism. On one hand, we have