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Henry Fonda for President
Images from movies are always those of myth extracted and sublimated from truth, and the power of this realist art to make fiction seem as if it were part of reality is its ultimate testament. Alexander Horwath’s essay film Henry Fonda for President is free on Le Cinema Club this week, and it has been…
Mademoiselle Kenopsia
André Bazin described the frames of the moving image as “not, as the technical jargon would seem to imply, the frame of the film image. They are the edges of a piece of masking that shows only a portion of reality.” This claim laments the fact that cinema is an art form that relies on and reflects reality,…
Invention – the emotional wavelength of inheritance
The first scene in Invention, co-directed by Courtney Stephen and its lead actress, Callie Hernandez, signals two key aspects that contribute to the overall tone and atmosphere of the entire film. First, the elliptical and free-wheeling sequencing of shots. We see a wide shot of an old man standing in profile, leaning slightly towards a…
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