Luís Azevedo

If you think of a director who combines biting satire and prescient socio-cultural commentary with over-the-top B-movie aesthetics, one name should immediately come to mind: …

Humor has been the subject of serious investigation dating back all the way to Plato and Aristotle. Over the past few decades, Dirk Eitzen has …

Throughout the centuries, art has established visual symbols still accepted and recognized today. Cinema often creates its own symbols by giving them meaning and connecting …

Bong Joon-ho is the second Korean filmmaker, after Park Chan-wook, whose sound was dissected and reassembled in this series. Although Joon-ho’s filmography is considerably less …

What would Sigmund Freud have thought of the Coen Brothers? If the famous thinker’s psychoanalytic theories are any indication, he’d have loved the renowned filmmaking …

In an interview with the website Designing Sound, sound designer Chuck Michael said that what guided him as he created the sonic landscape for Stoker …

When one thinks of the sounds that fill the worlds of Terrence Malick, the thoughts inevitably land on his seemingly patented and ultra-recognizable voiceovers. In …

“You know that ringing in your ears? That eeeee . . . that’s the sound of the ear cells dying like a swan song. Once …