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Culturazzi: An Oasis of the Arts | Cinema, Music, Literature, Photography, Theatre, Art
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Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji) - Chen Kaige
Farewell My Concubine is one of the few rare films that present history, beauty, emotion and art with such outstanding craft and skill. This film qualifies as one of the most unique films I’ve... -
Che Guevara, The body and the legend - Raffaele Brunetti
As many of us walk around sporting T-shirts with an image of a figure with a military cap perched on his head (taken by Alberto Korda, it is one of the most widely circulated image in the world),... -
Talk To Her (Hable con ella) - Pedro Almodovar
The “dashing, charismatic buccaneering” (as I have called him elsewhere) Spanish storyteller, Pedro Almodovar, is back. And this time he packs more punch with his dynamic panache in another vignette... -
Following - Christopher Nolan
Following stretched the concept of low-budget films to its very extreme. Shot in 16-mm grainy black-and-white stocks, the movie at first glance might appear to be a deeply experimental and esoteric... -
Przypadek (Blind Chance) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
Krzysztof Kieslowski’s films often deal with the themes of fate, coincidences and choices. The phenomenal Decalogue teased us with the possibilities of seemingly disparate lives being connected.... -
The Bridge across Forever - Richard Bach
Wouldn’t we feel elated to know that all those dreamy knights and heavenly princesses, eternal lovers and magical soul mates were true and alive? That a life of love filled with adventure, pureness... -
Sátántangó (Satan's Tango) - Béla Tarr
Since the death of Andrei Tarkovsky, the search has been on for the heir to the throne he left behind. Many believed that his fellow countryman Alexander Sokurov would be the chosen one. Indeed, his... -
Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika) - Caroline Link
Home is where the heart is. But what if you don’t know where your heart is? Or what if the heart falls in love with a new place – Does it become home then? Caroline Link’s Nowhere in Africa is a... -
The Killing Joke - Alan Moore, Brian Bolland
The Killing Joke is arguably the greatest Joker story ever told. It traces the history of Joker – how a simple-minded, innocent looking, God-fearing, struggling family man with a beautiful and loving... -
Hero - Zhang Yimou
“To reconstitute political life in a state presupposes a good man, where to have recourse to violence in order to make oneself prince in a republic supposes a bad man. Hence very rarely will there be... -
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep, along with books like Hammett’s Maltese Falcon, and Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, is considered a cornerstone where hard-boiled fiction is concerned. It is famous for its... -
California Dreamin' (Endless) - Cristian Nemescu
California Dreamin’ (Endless), along with such movies as 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and 12:08 East of Bucharest, forms one of the cornerstones of the ongoing Romanian New Wave movement. The...