Blogs about: 1980s Cinema

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Reassemblage

ZC wrote 4 days ago: Trinh T. Minh-Ha says that she set out to make Reassemblage as an ethnographic film that paid no he … more →

Tags: Cinema, Documentary, Ethnography, Reassemblage, Senegal, Trinh T. Minh Ha

The Decalogue, I-III2 comments

ZC wrote 3 weeks ago: Krzysztof Kieslowski was a cinematic genius, at the level of a Godard or an Antonioni but receiving … more →

Tags: Cinema, death, God, Krzysztof Kieslowski, polish, Sabbath, Ten Commandments, The Decalogue

A Sentence on Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters

ZC wrote 1 month ago: With a structure alone that sets it apart from the fraught-with-contemporary-failures category of b … more →

Tags: PhotoEssays, One-Sentence Reviews, Cinema, Japanese, Beauty, Yukio Mishima, mishima: a life in four chapters, Paul Schrader, Biopic

Chocolat

ZC wrote 2 months ago: After wanting to watch Claire Denis’ film Chocolat for a couple years (and watching Lasse Hallstr … more →

Tags: Cinema, Power, Colonialism, postcolonialism, France, chocolat, Claire Denis, Cameroon, domination

The Last Emperor

ZC wrote 2 months ago: According to Yosefa Loshitzky’s chapter “The Quest for the Other: Bertolucci’s The Last Emper … more →

Tags: Cinema, China, Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor, cultural revolution, feminization

A Sentence on Powaqqatsi

ZC wrote 2 months ago: “Dude, say what you will about the tenets of national socialism. At least it’s an ethos. … more →

Tags: One-Sentence Reviews, Cinema, Brazil, Powaqqatsi, Godfrey Reggio, poverty, Marxism, humanism, Socialism

The Draughtsman's Contract

ZC wrote 2 months ago: The framing begins Feminists have almost as bad a rapport as male chauvinists, and not always withou … more →

Tags: Cinema, Power, Peter Greenaway, The Draughtsman's Contract, British Cinema, Feminism, Conceit, Mystery, Pleasure

A Sentence on Brazil

ZC wrote 4 months ago: Terry Gilliam’s all-too-real, warped, fish-eye view of the world as it already is, Brazil is … more →

Tags: One-Sentence Reviews, Terry Gilliam, Brazil, jonathan pryce, Dystopia, Information, Consumers, Dreams

Blood Simple

ZC wrote 4 months ago: You can’t really get the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men unless you’ve first … more →

Tags: Blood Simple, Coen Brothers, Comedy, Film Quarterly, Horror, No Country for Old Men, Noir, stupidity, Thriller

E.T.1 comment

ZC wrote 7 months ago: Our first experience at the midnight Friday showing at the Del Mar Theatre in downtown Santa Cruz w … more →

Tags: Blockbuster, ET, SciFi, Spielberg, War of the worlds

Hail Mary

ZC wrote 7 months ago: Having only seen Breathless and Pierrot Le Fou so far, Jean-Luc Godard’s Hail Mary was a depar … more →

Tags: Christ, French, godard, Hail Mary, Roman Catholicism, Virgin Mary


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