Censorship in Film

    Nagisa Oshima: What to Notice on a Rewatch

    August 2, 2026

    Nagisa Ōshima remains one of the most compelling and unsettling figures in postwar Japanese cinema. His career, spanning from the late 1950s to the cusp of the…

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    Revisiting That Obscure Object of Desire: A Thoughtful Breakdown

    July 27, 2026

    That Obscure Object of Desire stands as a haunting coda to Luis Buñuel’s storied career, a film that distills the director’s lifelong obsession with desire,…

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    Shock Corridor: What Makes It a Classic

    June 4, 2026

    Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor remains a harrowing exploration of madness, ambition, and the fractured social psyche of early 1960s America. Stripped of…

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