In the late '50s, a handful of French critics crossed the best of old Hollywood with a liberating commitment to self-expression and instigated a cinematic "New Wave." In the early '70s, a handful of ...
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of Communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Duan Makavejev has the answers (or the ...
The infamous poster-child of Amos Vogel’s seminal Film as a Subversive Art, Yugoslav director Dusan Makavejev’s WR stands as an audacious and unique artifact. Part documentary, part narrative, part ...
We may forget that the most radical rethinking of Marx and Freud found in European cinema of the late 60s and early 70s came from the east rather than the west. Indeed, it’s hard to think of a headier ...