Murnau, the dark fairy tale, romance and the “living” camera
Friedrich Plumpe, aka Murnau is a German director born in 1888 on December 28 in Bielefeld. He is one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema. Most of …
Binge watching: the model for big binge streaming. What’s this?
Discovering cinema, its history and its authors may not be easy in the age of binge watching, even if everything, apparently, is available and within reach. Today the big binge, …
Expressionism: deep fears become the protagonists of the image
Expressionism in cinema, as in other arts, aimed to bring the emotions of the characters to the fore. Expressionism’s view of the world is extremely subjective, emotional and non-rational. The …
Z generation: the sad end of cinema in the age of digital fanboys
If the Lumière brothers had seen the situation in which cinema fell in the years of the z generation they would have looked at each other and would have commented: …
Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin is not a “crazy shit”
Who was Sergej Eisenstein? In Italy, tens of thousands of people know him above all for his most important film, the second of his filmmaking career after the Strike, The …
Art and life: notes for the film with the provisional title “The lost poet”
Existence is sometimes the difficult art of walking in balance on a suspended thread between art and life. Art lives on the same road as life but in a more …
Dziga Vertov: The metaphysical genius of a Pole who emigrated to Russia
Born in Poland in 1896, Dziga Vertov, born David Abelevič Kaufman, moved to Russia where he first studied medicine and then poetry and fiction. In Moscow he begins to take …
David Griffith, the inventor of analytic editing and modern cinema
David Wark Griffith had been a bad actor who occasionally worked in theaters in provincial towns and urban ghettos. During those years he was well acquainted with the psychology and …
Indiecinema Film Festival 2021: the final phase of the festival in May
Indiecinema Film Festival 2021: the first edition will end with this third session We are pleased to finally be able to announce the third and final session of the Indiecinema …
The exterminating angel: the inner prison of the rich bourgeois
The exterminating angel was made by Luis Bunuel in Mexico in 1962 and is considered one of the Spanish director’s greatest surrealist masterpieces. A group of rich bourgeois, with no …
Luis Bunuel: an anarchist surrealist looking for a homeland
Luis Bunuel was born in Calendar, a small town in Aragon, Spain on February 22, 1900. He was sent to study in a Jesuit college. In all likelihood, this experience …
Surrealism: the avant-garde that imposes the domination of the irrational and the unconscious in art and cinema
Paris: the capital of surrealism Even surrealism like cinema and most of the avant-gardes of the twentieth century was born in Paris. As the New York of the new world …
Georges Méliès: the inventor of fantastic and historical cinema
Georges Méliès is perhaps the most extraordinary and mythical character of the origins of cinema. It was he who invented the first tricks of the cinema such as the disappearances, …
History of films: the origins, inventions and pioneers of cinema
History of films: before the cinema The history of films begins well before the Lumière brothers, and is lost in the mists of time. The power of mental images that …
Cult movie: what is it? What is the true essence of a cult film?
Cult movie is a very flexible, abstract concept which is applied to many types of cinematographic works but which can be easily manipulated for commercial purposes. Looking at the ads …
Fritz Lang and his cinematic masterpieces to discover and rediscover
Fritz Lang had guessed it: cinema is a complex art that has enormous unexpressed potential. In just a century of life, what man was able to do with it was …
10 documentaries on awareness of the world we live in
Documentaries, in addition to being a great opportunity for today’s independent filmmakers, they are films that can be made with small badgets and big motivations. They are also the territory where …
What is indiecinema?
Indiecinema is the innovative channel dedicated to indie films and great cult movies neglected by mainstream channels. Experimental films, avant-garde, new visual languages outside the box, indie films of all …
Kaurismäki: Rocky according to Aki and his irresistible shorts
Kaurismaki and his cinematic poetics There are those who discovered the movies of Aki Kaurismäki relatively recently. Perhaps with the very remarkable Miracle in Le Havre (2011) or with The …
Lightning: an experimental movie of Manuela Morgaine
Lightning by Manuela Morgaine is an experimental movie – documentary, a 4-hour “monstre” film, Lightning explores in a deep and poetic way the mythologies and phenomena related to lightning, connecting …