Sorry to disappoint, but not what you think! This is a documentary about the life and work of Australian-born Hollywood studio costume designer Orry-Kelly. Documentaries need to be included in…

6.Rocco and his Brothers, directed by Luchino Visconti. Italian/French (1960). Visconti was one of the giants of the post-war Italian cinema’s era of Neo-Realism. This powerful family drama is the…

El miércoles 23 de septiembre se llevó a cabo el primer Cinema UFM Virtual, donde se conversó en torno a Medea (2017), película costarricense, junto a la directora Alexandra Latishev,…

Hilda Hidalgo, directora, guionista y productora costarricense impartió en línea el curso de Inmersión Cinematográfica II a estudiantes de primer año de la Escuela de Cine y Artes Visuales, que…

5. Double Indemnity, directed by Billy Wilder. (1944). This is the Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made.  If there is any flaw in the universal moral guilt Hitch presented to…

4. A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan (USA) 1957. Kazan, who directed the 1954 landmark film On the Waterfront that I recommended in my last roundup, made…

3. Fire Will Come (Viendra Le Feu), directed by Oliver Laxe. Spain, France, Luxembourg. Subtitles. (2019). When an arsonist (Amador Arias) returns home in the countryside after being released from…

This droll American film is from one of the Hollywood studio era’s finest writer/directors, or auteurs. It was chosen by the New York Times as 1941’s best film of the…

La Escuela de Cine del Uruguay (ECU) realizará por primera vez un Encuentro Internacional de Estudiantes de Cine, paralelo al 20 Festival Internacional de Escuelas de Cine, los días viernes…

Movies bring us closer to ourselves, even as they offer an entertaining form of escapism. This seeming contradiction reveals a fundamental cinematic truth; a director creates the illusion of safety…

Juan Diego Herrera Zuluaga, exalumno de la segunda promoción de la Escuela de Cine y Artes Visuales UFM, es Selección Oficial del showcase de First-Time Filmmaker Sessions, una iniciativa de…

El cortometraje Ixch’umil (2020) de Miguel Ajcot, cineasta guatemalteco, mentor y coordinador técnico de la Escuela de Cine y Artes Visuales es Selección oficial en la muestra de Pueblos Indígenas…