Not unlike the previous film, Rudo Y Cursi seems very much a film seeped in its own culture; in this case, Mexico. For that reason, it really seems unfair to…
Without being an authority on all things French, The Perfume of Yvonne (or, Yvonne’s Perfume, or, Le parfum d’Yvonne) seems to be a very “French” sort of film; and not…
The Round-Up (dir. Miklós Jancsó): Diagonal shot movements, a bare background, moral mind games. The prison camp is an island in a world of nothingness housing antichrists, men who turn…
While it would normally seem a travesty, a horrid injustice to submit a “great formal experiment” like Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Double Life of Véronique to a(n) mundane/inane critical medium such…
In an excellent recent conference paper, it was remarked how a particular “buddy” movie (specifically, Superbad) tends to portray an anxious masculinity, or anxious masculinities. This masculinity shows forth a…
How refreshing to experience a film so critical of the system that undergirds film itself. And how fitting that Hollywood is located on the West Coast of the US, the…
The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film back in 1965 (when Red Beard should’ve won), and it’s not surprising that it…
Zany, cooky, and campy to the extreme, with some dialogue to be cherished (“What’s that screaming? A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”) and extra-special effects (see above), Jane…
Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru) is defined by discourse of the most cinematic kind, both extra- and intra-. The true-story based documentary couched in the narrative of…
