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The Kubrick Production: How Stanley Kubrick Stage-Managed Reality

March 18, 2026

Every aspect of his professional life was stage-managed with the same precision he brought to a tracking shot. The results were remarkable. Total artistic control achieved at a young age.[…]

Cult Cinema · Dreams · Experimental & Underground · Exploitation & Erotica · Gothic · Indies · Sex & Relationships

Jess Franco and the Cinema of Drift and Trance: On Time, Obsession, and the Hypnotic Pull of the Erotic Image

December 20, 2025

In Franco’s world, beauty existed only through risk. The rawness, the repetition, the obsessive zooms were not acts of carelessness but of liberation. They were his rebellion against the clean,[…]

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