Russian Ark (Sokurov, 2002) was shot in one continuous take and travels through the history of Russia. The impression given is that Sokurov feels that the Siege of Leningrad was too important to exclude from the film, but he wanted to move on quickly having covered it.
The tensions between East and West Germany are approached carefully in Contemporary German Film, or, at least that is the case in Good Bye Lenin! (Becker, 2003).
Meadows didn’t set out to make a particularly political film but did admit in an interview with IndieLondon that it was “probably the closest thing to a political film I will ever make”. This short essay explores what unites and divides characters within This Is England (Meadows, 2006).
I am thrilled to have been awarded the No. 6 film prize for academic excellence.
Could it be that Leos Carax was trying to prove Raphaël Bassan wrong after Bassan classified him a “director of the look”?