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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 | Aug 30, 2025
The name “Hollywood” was once just a real estate gimmick, stamped on a patch of land at the edge of Los Angeles in the early 1900s. Within a decade, though, it had become shorthand for the entire American film industry. What drew the first filmmakers west was not glamour...
Published by CinemaWaves | Aug 12, 2025
Analog horror movies are a fascinating corner of the horror genre. They do not rely on modern special effects or glossy visuals. Instead, they tap into lo-fi aesthetics, unsettling audio, and the uncanny familiarity of old media to deliver scares that feel both nostalgic and deeply...
Written by Inés Cases-Falque | Aug 02, 2025
Love has never been easy to define, even less so on the silver-screen. Since the beginning of cinema, the feeling has become synonymous with melodramas, period pieces, and rom coms. Surging love stories and yearning protagonists are entangled with the concept of ‘love’...
Written by Inés Cases-Falque | Jul 17, 2025
In The Beaches of Agnès, there is a scene in which Agnès Varda looks down the lens of her camera, straight at her audience, and says: “If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” This quote resonated within her work for decades...
Written by Max Palmer | Jul 02, 2025
Bleak, unflinching, and thought-provoking are just a few words often used to describe Austrian born Michael Haneke who is known for challenging audiences by shining the light on the darker sides of society. Born in Munich in 1942, Haneke didn’t make his feature film...
Written by Inés Cases-Falque | Jun 21, 2025
Jacques Demy appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the...
Written by Noah Morriss | Jun 11, 2025
Jan Svankmajer is a Czech filmmaker known for his surreal animations which use a wide variety of techniques ranging from claymation to puppetry to paper cutouts. He was a leading figure in the Czech New Wave movement and has had a long career in experimental film...
Written by Max Palmer | May 30, 2025
Béla Tarr is one of the most respected Hungarian directors and is also a pivotal figure in the genre that is “slow cinema” which is a style that prioritises stillness, long takes, and atmospheric storytelling over traditional plot-driven narratives. He is a figure who...
Published by CinemaWaves | May 18, 2025
Wuxia, a term blending wu - meaning martial, and xia - meaning chivalrous hero, is a popular genre of Chinese literature and film. Though deeply rooted in classical Chinese literature and philosophy, wuxia has become a cornerstone of Chinese cinema. Over the past...
Published by CinemaWaves | May 05, 2025
Since the birth of cinema in the late 19th century, film has held an enormous cultural power. But with that power has come scrutiny — and often, suppression. The history of censorship in film is a global story of control and resistance, where governments, religious institutions, and...