https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n1DsKT2qTM Who Is the Dreamer?: The Infinite Worlds of David Lynch Beginning his career as a painter before turning to filmmaking, David Lynch went on to become one of the most innovative, influential, and divisive directors of the last 50 years, plumbing the deepest recesses of the human psyche …
Occurring alongside the French New Wave—and often unjustly overshadowed by it—the Japanese New Wave was also empowered by young, inexperienced filmmakers’ outright disdain for many of their countries’ much-lauded directors that came before them. But Japan’s fiery young directors coming up in the late 1950s and early …
Released the year before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Karen Shakhnazarov’s absurdist satire Zerograd captures the disorientation and terror of gradually coming to realize that you live in a reality you no longer recognize. Arriving in a remote city in order to get a replacement for …
The 1969 Czech anthology film Prague Nightsconsists of a trio of tales of lust, revenge, and feminine wiles, each infused with a singular combination of the macabre, the grotesque, and the comically sensual in depicting some of the darkest and most mysterious aspects of Czech culture. Between …