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Two Japanese films made two years apart turn damaged faces into problems of identity. Kaneto Shindō explicitly linked Onibaba's mask to atomic-bomb disfigurement; Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another places...
The cinematic legacy of Nakadai, born Motohisa Nakadai in Tokyo in 1932, finds its foundation in a unique artistic discipline. He maintained throughout his life a primary dedication to the...
The greatest lesson we take from Pi today is the terrifying clarity of its warning. We learn that the relentless pursuit of absolute pattern and predictability can destroy the self....
When the Nobel Committee named László Krasznahorkai this year as the winner in the literature category, they spoke of his apocalyptic rhythm and circling prose. That description fits another figure...
When Robert Wiene released The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in 1920, Europe was still marked by the shock of war. Cities broken, men returned hollowed, authority both feared and obeyed....