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Continue reading →: Mademoiselle KenopsiaAndré 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…
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Continue reading →: Canyon PassageJacque Tourneur’s Canyon Passage is as about rituals as any westerns. For it is through patterns of distinctive habits that we can clearly understand the characters onscreen, whose presences feel permanent despite we’ve only been with them for less than 90 minutes. These are Logan’s constant travelling, Camrose’s flipping of…
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Continue reading →: Favourite First Time Watches of JulyThe Lady from Shanghai Welles’s demiurgical fable. See how he films the interiors of the courtroom: from an extreme wide angle looking down at everyone; he positions himself above the situation at hand, which contains ridiculous moments such as Mr. Bannister cross-examining himself. This pride continues until it finds Rita…
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Continue reading →: Review: The Children’s HourOne can easily trace the theatrical roots of William Wyler’s 1961 film adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s 1934 stage play The Children’s Hour: the actors are facing away from each other when delivering dialogues, turning their bodies toward the cinematic eye. They often exclaim with a desperate unnaturalness and a lack…
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Continue reading →: The DamnedSet in 1862, amidst the raging American Civil War, a group of volunteer Union soldiers set to scout and garrison the unmapped frontier of the West. This is the premise set by texts that precede The Damned, Robert Minervini’s sixth film, his first narrative feature that won him the best…
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Continue reading →: Invention – the emotional wavelength of inheritanceThe 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…
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Continue reading →: Boogie Nights – Hedonism and Its DownfallsHow to discuss a film as hectic as Paul Thomas Anderson’s sophomore feature Boogie Nights? By asking this question, I have already fruitlessly initiated such discussions. This is a film that has progressively disappointed me through repeat viewings. Rewatching it in 70mm this last weekend – I’d imagine the ideal…
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Too Early / Too Late – An Introduction to Straub / Huillet
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Continue reading →: Too Early / Too Late – An Introduction to Straub / HuilletA recent surge in interest in the texts of Serge Daney has led me to Too Early / Too Late, subsequently leading me to watch a film from the filmmaking couple Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet for the first time. My previous assumption of the challenging nature of their cinema…
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Continue reading →: Hard Eight – Paul Thomas Anderson’s Debut Feature Short of a Fully-Formed VisionWith the imminent release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest and tenth feature film, One Battle After Another, in September, it would be a good time to settle my relationship with one of the preeminent American filmmakers of his generation. Perhaps ‘settle’ is not the most fitting word, as films are…
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Continue reading →: Familiar Touch – Tender Drama Lost at the Heels of Its DispositiveFamiliar Touch, Sarah Friedland’s debut feature, follows the journey of an aging Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), as she struggles with dementia and enters into assisted living. The film has an elliptical quality to it, as if our perception of the events occurring onscreen is synchronized with Ruth’s own obfuscation of the…
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