I said his story reminded me of a movie I’d seen recently in which a university professor gets romantically involved with a student who is the same age as his daughter. Around the time his young lover moves in with him the professor’s daughter shows up at his door in the middle of night in tears …
At the Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, Jan 22 2018 Delphine Seyrig plays the world-weary, decadent and delicious Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory in the 1971 film Daughters of Darkness. In this Belgian horror film movie Seyrig proves she can do anything with a fascinating elegance include playing a perverse, sadistic and campy lesbian vampire. Seyrig died at the age …
I am working on and still working out an animation based on the famous coffee cup scene in Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her.
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Yesterday Girl (1966) by Alexander Kluge showing at MoMA. The film experiments of the 1960s — though very obviously of their time — still feel so fresh, innovative and playful. It must have been a thrilling time to be a cineaste.
I recently saw the films Carol by Todd Haynes and the Turkish film Mustang by Deniz Gamse Erguven and both of the films got me thinking about hair. I went into Mustang already prepped to think about hair. I heard the director being interviewed on the radio and she spent some time talking about the wild hair of the …
I Knew Her Well is an Italian film from 1965 staring Stefania Sandrelli. I saw it recently at Film Forum but its also available on DVD from Criterion Collection. Here is a bit of the Criterion Collection’s description of the film on its website: Over a series of intimate episodes, just about every one featuring a …
Just imagine you’ve got nothing time. You have no clear goal and around you events are unfolding. You feel actively, and curiously engaged in them yet also carried along by serendipity. From this description you could be either an actor in or a viewer of the film Out 1. What distinguishes you from being an …
The Americans, Ida and Child’s Pose: All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. I like good TV programs. I’ve watched several series with a lot of enthusiasm. However, if quality serial television ceased to exist, I would be more than fine. This is why I was surprised to …
Locke is the last name of the guy driving the car in the movie Locke. For the duration of the film he is driving down the highway, fielding calls from his job, his wife, sons, and the woman who is in the hospital having his baby. The action, which includes among other things a bitter …
Man’s main purpose on the planet is to make life comfortable for cats, explains Catrine to Claude in a scene from Alain Resnais’s Je t’aime Je t’aime. When you think about it, her theory is a remarkably calming one. This conversation is one of many moments of his past Claude revisits via a time travel …