Tag Archives: author cinema

between Luis Buñuel and Wes Anderson (film: Le testament d’Orphée – Jean Cocteau, 1960)

Posted on July 10, 2026 by admin

Those who are, like me, admirers of the cinematic style practiced by Wes Anderson in the last decade, of fantasies with a surrealist touch, bringing together on screens formidable casts in stories where reality melts into legends and imagination, will … Continue reading →

Posted in Mariana Gott-Shmilovitch | Tagged author cinema, fantasy movies, Francois Truffaut, Françoise Sagan, French cinema, Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, Le testament d'Orphée, original script, Pablo Picasso, Roland Pontoizeau, surrealist movies, Testament of Orpheus, Yul Brynner | Leave a comment

a polish mother (film: Mama – Or Sinai, 2025)

Posted on July 8, 2026 by admin

The fate of economic migrants from the ‘second’ Europe, men and especially women who leave their countries in search of a source of income that will ensure not only their survival but also the future of their family and children, … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged author cinema, Evgenia Dodina, first film for a director, international movies production, Israeli cinema, Mama, movies about emigration, Or Sinai, original script, social drama | Leave a comment

irish horror (film: Hokum – Damian McCarthy, 2026)

Posted on May 12, 2026 by admin

It takes a bit of courage, or perhaps audacity, to give the title ‘Hokum‘ to a commercially distributed film. The noun ‘hokum’, which I learned on this occasion, has a few different meanings: it means ‘nonsense’ or ‘just plain nonsense’ … Continue reading →

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wedding and prejudice (film: The Drama – Kristoffer Borgli, 2026)

Posted on May 12, 2026 by admin

‘The Drama‘, the film written and directed by Norwegian Kristoffer Borgli who crossed the Atlantic for several years and is now making films in the United States, combines in a surprising and original way two film genres that are apparently … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Alana Haim, American cinema, author cinema, dark comedy, Kristoffer Borgli, original script, Robert Pattinson, romantic comedy, social cinema, The Drama, Zendaya | Leave a comment

a non-Orwellian film about Orwell (film – Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5 – Raoul Peck, 2025)

Posted on May 7, 2026 by admin

I don’t think George Orwell would have liked the documentary ‘Orwell 2+2=5‘ that Raoul Peck wrote, directed and dedicated to his biography and the relevance of his writings and especially the novel ‘1984’ in today’s world. I saw the documentary … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged author cinema, Damian Lewis, documentary, original script, Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5, political cinema, Raoul Peck | Leave a comment

the lonely president (film: La grazia – Paolo Sorrentino, 2025)

Posted on April 25, 2026 by admin

‘La grazia‘, the title of Paolo Sorrentino‘s latest film, has been translated into English as ‘Grace‘. The two words, even though they come from a common origin, have different primary meanings in the two languages, Italian and English. In-between these … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Ana Ferzetti, author cinema, Italian cinema, La grazia, original script, Paolo Sorrentino, political cinema, Toni Servillo | Leave a comment

confused and divisive as the world is (film: Eddington – Ari Aster, 2025)

Posted on April 18, 2026 by admin

‘Eddington‘, the fourth film by American director Ari Aster, reminded me in many ways of some of Romanian director Radu Jude’s recent films. Made in 2025, the film looks back at the first half of 2020, a period that seems … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged American cinema, Ari Aster, author cinema, Darius Khongi, Eddington, Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, original script, political cinema, western movies | Leave a comment

a piece of life (film: C’mon C’mon – Mike Mills, 2021)

Posted on April 2, 2026 by admin

Mike Mills is one of those screenwriters-directors who have a formidable talent for bringing real life, as we know it, to the screen. I noticed this in one of his previous films – ’20th Century Women’ and this opinion was … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged author cinema, black-and-white film, docu-drama, family drama, Gaby Hoffmann, Joaquin Phoenix, Mike Mills, original script, road movies, Robbie Ryan, Woody Norman | Leave a comment

history in style (film: Amsterdam – David O. Russell, 2022)

Posted on March 31, 2026 by admin

I confess that ‘Amsterdam‘, the 2022 film by David O. Russell, confused me. The American director, who also writes his scripts, has made several films that I really liked for their stylistic consistency, for the topics related to the American … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged American history, Amsterdam, Anya Taylor-Joy, author cinema, Christian Bale, David O. Russell, Emmanuel Lubezki, Hollywood movies, inspired by true events, John David Washington, Margot Robbie, Mike Myers, original script, Rami Malek, Robert De Niro, Zoe Saldana | Leave a comment

the other lives of a monster (film: Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele – Kirill Serebrennikov, 2025)

Posted on March 13, 2026 by admin

Director Kirill Serebrennikov is a leading figure in contemporary Russian theater and film, and a man of great talent and courage. His most recent films are both author films and biographies of complex and very different personalities. The composer Tchaikovsky … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged August Diehl, author cinema, based on a book, black-and-white film, Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele, docu-drama, German cinema, Holocaust movies, Kirill Serebrennikov, Olivier Guez, The Disappearance of Joseph Mengele | Leave a comment