Tag Archives: political cinema

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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banality of good and evil (film: It Was Just an Accident / Yek tasadof-e sadeh – Jafar Panahi, 2025)

Posted on February 24, 2026 by admin

Jafar Panahi‘s ‘It was Just an Accident‘ (the original title is ‘Yek tasadof-e sadeh‘) would deserve all the awards for courage and verticality, if they existed at the Academy Awards or international film festivals. The Iranian director, the actors and … Continue reading →

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Lanthimos strikes again (film: Bugonia – Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025)

Posted on February 2, 2026 by admin

‘Bugonia‘ is apparently a relatively ‘light’ film in Yorgos Lanthimos‘ filmography. It’s a remake of ‘Save the Green Planet!’, the 2003 black fantasy comedy by Korean director Jan Joon-hwan, who appears as an executive producer on the American film’s credits. … Continue reading →

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the sea – so close and yet so far (film: The Sea / HaYam – Shai Carmeli-Pollak, 2025)

Posted on November 21, 2025 by admin

‘The Sea‘ (‘HaYam‘ is the original Hebrew title) is the feature film debut of Israeli director and screenwriter Shai Carmeli-Pollak. The author is a documentaries filmmaker and some of his previous films over the past 20 years have been documentaries … Continue reading →

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the Beauty and the Militant (film: The Way We Were – Sydney Pollack, 1973)

Posted on October 4, 2025 by admin

The most appropriate way to honor the memory of a filmmaker or actor who is no longer with us is to see or re-watch their films. ‘The Way We Were‘ from 1973 is one of the films that consolidated Robert … Continue reading →

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a polarized world (film: One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)

Posted on September 26, 2025 by admin

‘One Battle After Another‘ is the first serious candidate for the next Academy Awards. I couldn’t have expected anything else from Paul Thomas Anderson, a film maker who has already demonstrated his talent for bringing complex stories to the screen … Continue reading →

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the indiscrete wickedness of the bourgeoisie (film: La rupture – Claude Chabrol, 1970)

Posted on August 1, 2025 by admin

Some of the most scathing cinematic critiques of the bourgeoisie and the social order it dominated were created in the years after the student uprisings of 1968. They did not always take the form of explicitly political films, and one … Continue reading →

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the other masterpiece of Orson Welles (film: The Trial – Orson Welles, 1962)

Posted on July 11, 2025 by admin

‘The Trial‘ (1962) is – in my opinion – the second peak of Orson Welles‘s directing career, along with ‘Citizen Kane’. Welles himself considered it his best film. ‘The Trial‘ is the title of two masterpieces: one literary – Franz … Continue reading →

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