Four Frames: A Short Film about Killing (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988)
Kieslowski’s Decalogue seems to resort, at times, to self-consciously symbolic imagery: a bee clinging to a straw as a neighbouring…
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Four Frames: The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
The words “oh God” have been uttered countless different times in cinema, but never with such uncomprehending horror as when…
Thousand Words: The portrait of the religious movie by an atheist director
Ever since its earliest days, cinema has, to quote the esteemed French critic André Bazin, “always been interested in God”….
Four Frames: There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007)
There are numerous gods in Paul Thomas Anderson’s nihilistic nightmare rendering of the American Dream. Oil, Money and Power are…
