The Australian New Wave was a movement in Australian cinema that began in the 1970s and lasted through the 1980s. It occurred at a time when the Australian film industry was struggling with a recession and aimed to bring new life to the industry by…

Japanese New Wave cinema erupted in the late 1950s, a time of great social and political turmoil in Japan. The country was still recovering from the devastation of World War II, which had ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Japanese people…

The 1960s saw a revival of sorts with New German Cinema, a movement of filmmakers who drew from their country’s postwar trauma to make films that were both critical and personal. The New German Cinema is widely considered to be one of the most significant…

If the French New Wave was a movement that aimed to shock and provoke, then No Wave cinema was the next logical step. The late ’70s and early ’80s found New York City in economic decline, with crime rates soaring and many residents fleeing the…

Cinema du look (French for “cinema of the look”) is a French film movement that emerged in the mid-1980s. Cinéma du look movement is a French term that refers to a style of filmmaking that is based on the visual and thematic elements of American…

New Queer Cinema is an underground film movement of the early 1990s, with its beginnings in the cinematic vitality of New York City’s East Village. It was a time when gay and lesbian independent film-making was coming into its own as an artistic, economic, and…

Hungary’s film industry is one of the world’s most renowned. The country has produced a plethora of famous directors, such as Béla Tarr, Miklós Jancsó, and István Szabó, who have gained international recognition for their films. But where did it all start and how has…

One of the most important and influential film movements of the last two decades is Dogme 95. Its creators were two Danish directors, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who had become unhappy with the state of contemporary cinema. They believed that too many films…

The success of New Mexican Cinema (Nuevo Cine Mexicano) has been a long time coming. For many years after the golden era of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and ’50s (when stars like Maria Felix, Pedro Infante, and Jorge Negrete were the toast of Hollywood),…

The Berlin School is a label applied to a group of German filmmakers who came to prominence in the early 2000s. The label was coined by critics and scholars, who noted similarities between the films of Christian Petzold, Thomas Arslan, Maren Ade, Angela Schanelec, Christoph…