Why Dogme 95 Was the Last, Great Film Movement – IndieWire
Even though it was kind of a joke, these gritty digital video undertakings were essential challenges to commercial cinema.
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Even though it was kind of a joke, these gritty digital video undertakings were essential challenges to commercial cinema.
Twenty-five years after the first Dogme films premiered, we look back at the abrasive, low-budget output of the movement with a manifesto to strip away the gloss of mainstream cinema.
Bergman’s 1972 film is rereleased, the story of sisters waiting for one to die, and it shocks and disturbs in equal measure
- A line of cars speeds into the gravel driveway of a large stately house. Excited guests spill out, gathering to mark the birthday of their wealthy, powerful host. Among them are three of the patriarch’s adult children: the favoured son, seemingly functional but emotionally cauterised; the glamorous daughter, new boyfriend in tow, hoping to assimilate him into the family; and the other, wayward son, drunk and disorderly and desperate for parental approval. They’ve come for a party, but it’s not to be. Dark secrets are coming, and the truth will out. Recently, when preparing to interv...