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Published by CinemaWaves | Nov 23, 2025
Character study in film focuses on the internal lives of characters, setting aside traditional plot structures in favor of an in-depth exploration of a character’s psychology, emotions, and motivations. This approach to filmmaking allows for a deeper understanding of...
Written by Max Palmer | Nov 03, 2025
A couple of months ago when I got the chance to see Blue Velvet in the cinema after David Lynch's passing and I was shocked to see the lack of respect and maturity from the audience. Throughout the film there was something I could only class as ironic laughter, an example...
Written by Inés Cases-Falque | Oct 25, 2025
New Queer Cinema was a movement that defined filmmaking of the nineties. Identities once mocked and closeted were at the centrepiece of the indie scene, and they were not bound to the stereotypical roles once afforded to queer characters. These stories were politically...
Published by CinemaWaves | Oct 10, 2025
Cinema has always been fascinated with grandeur. From the earliest days of film, directors searched for ways to overwhelm, dazzle, and impress. Among the styles that shaped this pursuit, baroque cinema stands out for its richness and theatrical power...
Written by Inés Cases-Falque | Sep 25, 2025
In the 90s, fear was defined by excessive gore, dark settings, and monsters in masks that chased their often-adolescent victims around their white-picket lawns. American cinema was experiencing a golden era in horror films, and the appeal for studios was evident; horror...
Published by CinemaWaves | Sep 08, 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 22, 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 09, 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...