The Film Sufi

Kurdish Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s fourth feature film, Half Moon ( Niwemang , 2006) picks up the themes and the essential narrat...

The artistic success of Dr. Arthur Robison’s Warning Shadows ( Schatten – eine Nächtliche Halluzination , literally, “Shadows – a Nocturna...

Paul Leni, the director of Waxworks (1924), was an Expressionist painter who had worked with Max Reinhardt as a set designer and poster de...

Films of East Asia: Japanese Girls at the Harbor ( Minato no nihon musume ) - Hiroshi Shimizu (1933) Osaka Elegy - Kenji Mizoguchi (19...

With his second feature, Days of Being Wild ( A Fei Zheng Chuan , which means literally, “The True Story of Ah Fei”, 1990), Wong Kar Wai ...