The Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo shook up last year’s Berlinale competition with the unexpected comedic notes of the otherwise pensive The Woman Who Ran, a... Read More
Hugo Emmerzael
Hugo EmmerZael is an Amsterdam-based film critic and curator. He's an editor of Dutch independent cinema magazine De Filmkrant and a curator of the arthouse section of the Netherlands Film Festival. His bylines include MUBI Notebook, Senses of Cinema, Electric Ghost Magazine and Frame.Land.
It’s a widely held belief that the earliest composed texts by mankind were of administrative nature. Tablets in Cuneiform scripts as early of approximately 3200... Read More

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