In this week’s World Cinema column, we look at how individual countries become a hotbed for filmmaking talent, and the new wave of directors from Latin America...
Film is sometimes like music. There is a certain scene which is considered cool at a certain time, and a time and place which is a hotbed of creative energy. Musically, it currently resides in New York, but film-wise is perhaps more open to debate. Unlike music, film cannot react instantly to social changes. It take years to write, produce, and release a picture, and that's with a major studio release.
But every so often, a region will produce a string of filmmakers and create a buzz about it, one which inevitably becomes noticed by Hollywood. So, what's been hip in recent years?
In my view the defining world cinema of the last decade plus must be from Latin America. The list...
Film is sometimes like music. There is a certain scene which is considered cool at a certain time, and a time and place which is a hotbed of creative energy. Musically, it currently resides in New York, but film-wise is perhaps more open to debate. Unlike music, film cannot react instantly to social changes. It take years to write, produce, and release a picture, and that's with a major studio release.
But every so often, a region will produce a string of filmmakers and create a buzz about it, one which inevitably becomes noticed by Hollywood. So, what's been hip in recent years?
In my view the defining world cinema of the last decade plus must be from Latin America. The list...
- 9/29/2010
- Den of Geek
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