New Mexican cinema is a current ongoing wave of films and filmmakers coming from Mexico that began in the early 1990s. “When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realized that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.” – Jim Jarmusch With a do-it-yourself attitude it was the precursor in American independent cinema to Mumblecore. They didn’t wait for a studio, they just did it their way and inspired filmmakers to not focus on mainstream subjects. Vincent Gallo went on to direct a few transgression films after the movement had finished. Jim Jarmusch and Amos Poe continue to work. These films boosted American independent cinema and helped push trasngresive films. Vincent Gallo and Steve Buscemi both got their start by acting in no wave films. It was a great practice for the filmmakers who would go on to have successful careers. The films were mostly made on either Super 8 or 16mm film in a guerrilla filmmaking style inspired by French new wave. Money was tight but their minds were free. No wave wasn’t just a film movement but also a music and art movement by a group of young creative people living on the Lower East Side of New York City. “My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.” – Wong Kar-Wai
Without this movement, Hong Kong would not have such incredible films as it does to days, which have inspired Quentin Tarantino. Hong Kong cinema is now a big industry in world cinema and inspires action films across the globe. This is another movement that never really died. Those that were of a different genera like comedy or romance would have a fast energy like an action film. A lot of films were thrilling crime films about the Triad gangs or Martial art films. They were inspired by Italian and French cinema and used real locations. The new wavers made films grittier and in their natural Chinese dialect. The culture and history of Hong Kong is very different from the rest of China and these filmmakers show it. Whilst most films in China were made in Mandarin Chinese and filmed on stages, a few Cantonese speaking Hong Kong filmmakers who had studied European films, decided to break apart from the mainstream.