Nelson Pereira dos Santos (born in 1928 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian actor, screenwriter, film critic and theorist, producer, and director. He can be…
The Korean New Wave generally refers to the art cinema produced in South Korea starting in the late 1980s as the country liberalised after several…
When the architect Sérgio Ferro entitled his 1967 manifesto ‘New Architecture’, he proclaimed a new architecture in Brazil by means of alignment with the thesis-manifesto…
Mostly defined through its ideological opposition to Popular Indian Cinema, Indian Parallel Cinema, in general terms, is understood as India’s art or alternative cinema. More…
Glauber Rocha de Andrade (Vitória da Conquista, 1939–1981) was a Brazilian film critic, screenwriter, producer, and director. Arguably the most important director of the cinema…
Germaine Dulac (born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider) directed more than thirty films bearing the traces of Impressionism, Cinéma Pur, Surrealism, and Abstraction. She is known…
Raj Kapoor (1924–88) was a famous Indian film star, director, and producer. Belonging to one of Bollywood’s filmmaking dynasties, he started his career in his…
Metropolis (1927) is a black and white silent German film directed by Expressionist filmmaker Fritz Lang and co-written with his then wife, Thea von Harbou.…
Black God, White Devil is a 1964 film directed by Brazilian auteur Glauber Rocha. Shot on location in the Brazilian sertão, it launched the cinema…
The French New Wave is a term associated with a group of French filmmakers and the films they directed from the late 1950s until the…
The relationship between politics and the cinema is probably one of the most vexatious questions to have occupied the academic discipline of film studies, and…
The Group of Composers of Bahia is a movement of musical creation initiated within the context of the Music Seminars of the Federal University of…