The immaculate dissolve above occurs very near the end of Sirk's 1958 masterpiece, his penultimate Hollywood film. The film's hero, Ernst Graeber (John Gavin), a German soldier who we first see as part
"Junkopia" (1981). Directed by Chris Marker. Thanks to Tom Luddy for the heads-up!
Of my cinematic blind spots, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg is the most salient. The critical acclaim and gargantuan volume of the German filmmaker’s output suggest a mountain still to be discovered, so I recently
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in
Claire Denis' cinema of elision typically works around an event, or an issue, to best conjure a concept or a tone or a metaphor or a theme or, even, an affect. In her newest narrative film, 35 Rhums
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running the Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. *** "What she learns is that love simply exists
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running the Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. *** "There were to be no horror scenes at all
"It's a time machine." ~ Rod Taylor in The Time Machine. Chirgwin the White-Eyed Kaffir. Cupid at the Washtub. A Wayfarer Compelled to Disrobe Partially. Come Along, Dot. Upside Down, or The Human Flies
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running the Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. *** "Hands, which feel life, by which
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running the Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. *** "What I seek in my films, what I
Directed by David Lynch.
There's a reason that 1947's Brighton Rock, produced by Roy Boulting, directed by John Boulting, and co-scripted by Graham Greene and Terrence Ratitgan, from Greene's novel, is rarely mentioned as one