The International Film Festival 2019 has kickstarted last week with opening film, Pain and Glory (2019), directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Pain comes in many forms, both physical and mental, each affects us in different ways. It can be a hindrance… Read More ›
Movies and TV Shows
Expressionist Aesthetics in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie: A Fictional Recreation of Paris out of the Pastiche and the Cinéma du look
Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s French romantic comedy film Amélie (2001) is a lighthearted fiesta of daily pleasures. It narrates the life of a waitress, Amélie Poulain, who spent her childhood isolated from the outer world, and her journey to bring her little… Read More ›
This Week’s Features: The Enigma of Human History
As many postmodern writers like Umberto Eco claim, the history familiar to us is merely an artificial construction and thus a ‘reality’ made out of falsehoods is crafted. The postmodern notion of history as an accumulated product of multiple falsehoods… Read More ›
This Week’s Features: The Lost Generation
Yesterday marked the 105th Anniversary of World War I, one of the most massive watersheds of geopolitical history in the 20th century. The Great War led to the downfall of the Central Powers and four great imperial dynasties. It resulted… Read More ›
The Fantastic Symmetries and Repetitions: The Conspiracy Theory of the Moon Landing in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining
We all know about Apollo 11, the first spaceflight that landed on the Moon in human history. But was it really “one giant leap for mankind?” Or was it just a giant fraud that propagandised the greatness of America during… Read More ›
Féerie in the Cinema: Pataphysics in Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon
Long before Apollo landed on the Moon in the 1960s, writers and filmmakers had already dreamt of making voyages to the mysterious planet. Inspired by Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Around the Moon (1870) and H.G…. Read More ›