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The Wider Screen: Dogme 95 – Reinventing the Film Wheel and The Idiots
Dogme 95 was an avant-garde movement of film created in 1995 by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. The directors believed that cinema had fallen into overly aesthetic and thematically vapid cinematic decadence and proposed an alternative in an attempt to revisit a time in film history before contemporary trends had overtaken filmmaking.… Read more
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The Wider Screen: Czech New Wave Cinema – Escaping the Oppressive Rabbit Hole
During its early life, Czech cinema was strong and stable, for the time period. Beginning comparatively later than their foreign counterparts in France and Britain, their cinematic form began in the 1920’s and movements such as the Devětsil, an avant-garde Czech group that, from 1923 onwards, focused on the idea of Poetism. They preferred to… Read more
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