Poster for Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983) that has an an orange and yellow color scheme and features different couplings of men and women straddling one another.

Impressed at how many of Kyoshi Kurosawa’s stylistic hallmarks are present in his feature debut, the Pink film “Kandagawa Pervert Wars” (1983)
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Hamnet (2025) - Chloé Zhao | Love is loss

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Open Letter to Cinema: Indies, mainstreams, Auteaur and more!

Cinema was never meant to be a template. It was meant to be risk, voice, imperfection, and authorship

If you still believe cinema is art before product, this is for you.

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Adventures in Auteurism: A Crusade for the Critically Neglected - Sticking Place Books Daniel Kremer “Most dyed-in-the-wool film buffs nurture their own private lists of movie directors they feel have been underappreciated, neglected, and/or underrated,” Joe Dante writes in this book’s ...

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The Auteur Series: Magic, Myth, and Mutilation Michael J. Murphy examined through the lens of the auteur theory.

This months Apple Park Film Club looks at the work of local auteur, Michael J Murphy. It's the first in a series where I look at filmmakers' work through the lens of the auteur theory.

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Auteur Theory:

White Lotus is homophobic
+ The director is gay
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White Lotus isn't homophobic

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If Glen Powell’s Not Already a Star, This Movie Will Do It Richard Linklater’s Hit Man is a genuinely fresh and surprisingly gentle addition to the assassin genre.

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