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Peeping Tom1 comment

ZC wrote 1 week ago: Identification is less terrifying than implication. Horror films can be scary, but scarier still is … more →

Tags: British Cinema, Lacan, Freud, Unconscious, Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, Voyeurism, scopophilia, Laura Mulvey

Bande à part

ZC wrote 1 month ago: Few would argue with that Jean-Luc Godard created Bande à part in the middle of his most well-docum … more →

Tags: anna karina, band of outsiders, "bande a part", Bernardo Bertolucci, Bottle Rocket, Cinema, French, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le fou

A Sentence on The Battle of Algiers3 comments

ZC wrote 2 months ago: The most brutal, epic, and fair documentary-style film most will ever see, the (remarkably!) French … more →

Tags: One-Sentence Reviews, French, Colonialism, Battle Of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, algiers, Terrorism, revolution, France

Lawrence of Arabia

ZC wrote 2 months ago: Some sure-fire signs that someone is a Marxist include: insisting on appealing to Marx for everythin … more →

Tags: Alec Guinness, arabia, Cinema, Colonialism, David Lean, Freud, Lawrence of Arabia, Marx, Peter O'Toole

Chronicle of a Summer

ZC wrote 2 months ago: "Okay, now act real!" Cinéma vérité is one of those topics of film studies that doesn … more →

Tags: Cinema, French, Realism, Documentary, Cinéma vérité, chronicle of a summer, Jean Rouch, Edgar Morín, lyotard

Easy Rider

ZC wrote 4 months ago: The namesake of this blog, Andrew, once told me that the band Coldplay “is good at what they … more →

Tags: Cinema, dennis hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, easy rider, László Kovács

Dostoevsky & Kurosawa

ZC wrote 4 months ago: Perhaps more than any other part of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, the following grabbed m … more →

Tags: Comparative Literature, Red Beard, Cinema, Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky, Literature, Goodness, Akira Kurosawa

Dr. Fail-Safe: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

dave wrote 5 months ago: I first saw Dr. Strangelove in school at about fifteen. I’d been trying to track it down for some … more →

Tags: film, fail-safe, Dr. Strangelove, Sidney Lumet, Stanley Kubrick, henry fonda, walter matthau, Dan O'Herlihy

Woman in the Dunes

ZC wrote 6 months ago: With a particular attraction toward Japanese film, am trying to lessen the number of important work … more →

Tags: Aesthetics, desire, Entrapment, eros, Japanese, Society, Teshigahara, Woman in the Dunes

Winter Light

ZC wrote 7 months ago: It’s been awhile since I’ve seen a Bergman film. Went through a stage a year or more ag … more →

Tags: winter light, belief in God, Swedish, Bergman

Red Desert

ZC wrote 7 months ago: It has been said that Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) is Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterpiece. … more →

Tags: Antonioni, COLOR, Italian, Monica Vitti, Red, Red Desert

L'Eclisse

ZC wrote 7 months ago: L’Eclisse is the third film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy (or quadrilogy … more →

Tags: Antonioni, Framing, Italian, L'eclisse, modern

Pierrot Le Fou3 comments

ZC wrote 7 months ago: Jean-Luc Godard might be a genius. Certainly he’s an artistic genius, but he might also be an … more →

Tags: Art, COLOR, french new wave, Jean-Luc Godard, Pierrot le fou

Red Beard

ZC wrote 9 months ago: Watched Red Beard the other day for the thousandth time. For those of you unfamiliar, that would be … more →

Tags: Red Beard, Toshirô Mifune, Art, Cinema, sublime, Akira Kurosawa


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