Author Archives: lewisrayson

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.Continue reading “The Wider Screen: Dogme 95 – Reinventing the Film Wheel and The Idiots”

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 toContinue reading “The Wider Screen: Czech New Wave Cinema – Escaping the Oppressive Rabbit Hole”

The horror genre has always been dealt a fickle hand. Since the early days of cinema, horror has been looked upon as a novelty at best, and an undesirable and uninspired genre at worst. From the early days of cinema, filmmakers realised the potential to shock and awe their audience. The creation of trick filmsContinue reading “The Wider Screen: British Horror Cinema – The Rise and Fall of Hammer Horror”

Korea’s history has been as swift as it has been turbulent. This has been no less true during the 20th century. The Japanese occupation affected all parts of Korean culture and industry, from their language, names and, naturally, their media output. Under the Japanese rule and their regulations, the country’s film output was heavily monitoredContinue reading “The Wider Screen: Korean Cinema – Inspiration From Domination”