An “art film” in the sense that every shot provides a new occasion for experimentation but with a stronger sense of connection between story and plot. Other WKW films, particularly…
Memory – theme song of Perfidia. WKW’s obsession with eating (too much). One night stands – nothing lasts forever. See slow-motion and freeze frames in the restaurant. This is less of…
Films are easier to ponder and discuss when there’s a context. With Wong Kar-Wai’s Days of Being Wild, I feel rather context-less. Some have argued that it’s about modernism and…
According to Yosefa Loshitzky’s chapter “The Quest for the Other: Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky” in her book The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci, Bernardo Bertolucci’s…
Is it an unfair conclusion that Oriental cinema is particularly drawn to the Greek/Shakespearean tragedy? Certainly postwar Japanese films reflect this possibility – Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood, The Bad Sleep…
