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…
Precious Bodily Fluids 