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Continue reading →: Story of My Death – Albert SerraStory of My Death, my first foray into Albert Serra’s cinema. The film is eponymous with Casanova’s autobiography, which Serra uses, along with the fictional Dracula, to create a narrative set at the end of the 18th century. The duality of the two figures, according to Serra in his interview…
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Continue reading →: Laberint SequencesImage Credit: blakewilliams.net It’s always so difficult to review works like those from Blake Williams, because the sensorial pleasures they provide can hardly be accounted for by superlatives. Yet because the film is in 3D and rarely screened, I also lack the opportunity to dissect it shot by shot to…
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Continue reading →: What Does That Nature Say To You?Forming a rhetoric around Hong’s films is easy. The distinctive way they look and feel is in congruence with his self-sustaining, economical methods – doesn’t shoot on film, only works with a close group of actors, spends a day or two assembling the final cut, revolves around celibate artists that…
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Continue reading →: The Invisible Zoo
A boisterous rainforest in stillness, shrouded by the screeching of insects dominating the soundscape; a torrential rain intrudes upon the stasis and soon evanesces in the middle of the frame, bringing and taking away a temporary grace of sunlight. This opening spectacle in Ramuald Karmakar’s The Invisible Zoo assumes a…
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Continue reading →: The Grand BizarreI attended a screening of Jodie Mack’s 2013 stroboscopic short Let Your Light Shine at Innis Town Hall last Friday, which included 8 other shorts made to produce rainbow 3D effects when viewed with diffraction glasses. The screening was part of UofT’s Cinema Studies Graduate Student Conference, with Mack delivering…
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Continue reading →: New Review Series: Wavelengths DiariesThe snow is melting; the frozen land thaws in Ontario, where we’ve had one of the coldest winters in years. Spring’s arrival is foreshadowed everywhere, the anticipation within my heart, the cool air that caresses my face – as opposed to an abrupt attack like that from deep winter –…
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Continue reading →: Henry Fonda for PresidentImages 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…
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Continue reading →: FlowingLike the opening dichotomous image of the wooden poles stuck in water and their wavering reflections, there is an impending doom haunting the impeccable unity from Naruse’s great-as-usual narrative instincts and dramaturgy. Similar to The Whole Family Works, the film’s progression seems to be dictated by passage of days itself instead…
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Continue reading →: Favourite First Time Watches of DecemberSome Came Running The full capability of CinemaScope is fulfilled through Minnelli’s classicism, which introduces an impeachable formal unity – bodies becoming focal points for the movements of camera and occupying the edges of frames without being out of focus – that confronts the ostensible social unity. Everyone in this…
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Continue reading →: YearningOstensibly a two-hander, but the movie feels like Naruse’s largest film in terms of scope (not just because it’s shot on TohoScope). The opening scene, following an advertising truck of the new supermarket in town, proposes an external force that complicates Naruse’s usual examination of society through an individual’s navigation…
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