You’re listening to Filmmaking Giants. Today’s filmmaker does not ask for your attention. He demands your time. Béla Tarr is a director who understood something most cinema spends its energy denying: that time itself is the central experience of life, and that when hope collapses, time does not speed up or dramatize itself. It slows down. It drags. It repeats. It weighs on the body. Tarr’s cinema is built from that weight.

You’re listening to Filmmaking Giants. Today’s filmmaker does not ask for your attention. He demands your time. Béla Tarr is a director who understood something most cinema spends its energy denying: that time itself is the central experience of life, and that when hope collapses, time does not speed up or dramatize itself. It slows down. It drags. It repeats. It weighs on the body. Tarr’s cinema is built from that weight.

Béla Tarr — The collapse of time

Step into the worlds of the filmmakers who reshaped cinema forever. Filmmaking Giants tells the stories of visionaries who transformed moving pictures into the most powerful art form of the modern age. From D. W. Griffith’s groundbreaking continuity editing to Sergei Eisenstein’s explosive montage, from F. W. Murnau’s haunting shadows to Jean Renoir’s humanist eye, from Orson Welles’s innovations in sound and space to Alfred Hitchcock’s mastery of suspense—this season brings you ten giants whose influence still shapes every frame we see.We travel further: Akira Kurosawa’s rain-soaked epics, Yasujirō Ozu’s quiet tatami-level stillness, Satyajit Ray’s realism rooted in everyday life, and Ingmar Bergman’s intimate explorations of faith and existence. Each episode blends biography, context, and legacy—asking how these filmmakers changed the language of cinema and why their work still matters today.Season 1 is a guided tour through the foundation of world cinema. Whether you’re a student of film, a working creator, or simply someone who loves stories told on screen, this series gives you the tools to see movies differently—and to recognize the giants whose shoulders we all stand on.Produced by Selenius Media Inc

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Step into the worlds of the filmmakers who reshaped cinema forever. Filmmaking Giants tells the stories of visionaries who transformed moving pictures into the most powerful art form of the modern age. From D. W. Griffith’s groundbreaking continuity editing to Sergei Eisenstein’s explosive montage, from F. W. Murnau’s haunting shadows to Jean Renoir’s humanist eye, from Orson Welles’s innovations in sound and space to Alfred Hitchcock’s mastery of suspense—this season brings you ten giants whose influence still shapes every frame we see. We travel further: Akira Kurosawa’s rain-soaked epics, Yasujirō Ozu’s quiet tatami-level stillness, Satyajit Ray’s realism rooted in everyday life, and Ingmar Bergman’s intimate explorations of faith and existence. Each episode blends biography, context, and legacy—asking how these filmmakers changed the language of cinema and why their work still matters today. Season 1 is a guided tour through the foundation of world cinema. Whether you’re a student of film, a working creator, or simply someone who loves stories told on screen, this series gives you the tools to see movies differently—and to recognize the giants whose shoulders we all stand on. Produced by Selenius Media Inc

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