film blog
Destination for educational insights on filmmaking, techniques, and the broader history of cinema. This blog explores the art and science behind films, offering comprehensive analysis and perspective.
Published by CinemaWaves | Sep 15, 2026
Structuralist film theory is a fascinating and important approach to cinema that emerged in the mid-20th century. Based on linguistic and anthropological structuralism, this theory aims to analyze films based on their underlying structures rather than solely focusing on the narrative...
Published by CinemaWaves | Aug 28, 2026
A director’s cut is a version of a film that represents the director’s vision of how the movie should be seen, typically with scenes, sequences, or details that may have been cut from the theatrical release due to studio constraints or time limits...
Written by Adam Page | Jul 30, 2026
I think the vast majority of movie directors just tell stories. And that’s good, we do need stories. But then, and this is the distinction, there are also directors who conduct them. Dario Argento is the latter. This Roman maestro of supernatural horror and giallo works less like a directors...
Written by Ross “Macca” McLaren | Jul 12, 2026
A few years ago I set myself a challenge that sounded simple and turned out to be anything but: to watch and review a film from every country on Earth. Not just the usual handful of powerhouse industries, but everywhere, including the nations that manage one feature...
Written by Adam Page | Jun 20, 2026
There are directors you admire, who create solid and emotional work. And there are directors who do something to you. Directors who reach into your chest and start rearranging things in there with no particular apology. Lucio Fulci is the second kind...
Written by Adam Page | Apr 30, 2026
There is a certain type of hangover that has nothing to do with alcohol. It’s when you’ve just watched a movie, the credits are rolling and the lights have come up. Instead of that clean and aerobic feeling feeling of a properly resolved story, with the villain punished, lovers reunited...
Published by CinemaWaves | Apr 17, 2026
Cinema has long been divided into two broad traditions: documentary and fiction. One promises reality, the other construction, performance, and imagination. Yet many filmmakers have worked in the space between the two, creating films that borrow from both...
Written by Adam Page | Mar 31, 2026
Something that is perhaps never really brought up about Sigmund Freud is that he never made a movie. Never held a camera, and probably would have hated the popcorn. But somewhere between his Vienna office and the darkened theatres of interwar Paris, his ideas...
Written by Adam Page | Mar 15, 2026
Let’s talk about fear. Real fear. Not the cheap jump-scare variety, which is the cinematic equivalent of a stranger blasting their car horn at you, but the crawling, deep existential fear that gets into the marrow and stays there. It’s the fear which makes you question whether...
Published by CinemaWaves | Feb 28, 2026
In the middle of the twentieth century, when American studios dominated and British cinema leaned toward restraint and realism, Hammer Film Productions revived the Gothic imagination, giving horror a new visual language that was lush, provocative, and unmistakably British...