An aesthetic of stylized trash set in a dystopic, post-apocalyptic France overwhelmed with a warm red-orange-green color scheme. Terry Gilliam meets Time Burton, and then some. It’s a live-action cartoon,…
See previous post on Deleuze and the crystal image as it applies to this film. The ashes in the first shot of the film shifts to sweat via dissolve. The…
“Time is out of joint,” the opening states, while bombing graveyards in black and white. After this abstract, violent prologue, a remarkable crane/dolly shot takes us from outside a chateau…
Michele Lagny, “The feeling gaze: Jean Renoir’s La Bête humaine (1938)” – The essay traces some of the context of the film’s release, particularly the way it was somewhat ordained to…
Brian Price, “The End of Transcendence, the Mourning of Crime: Bresson’s Hands,” Studies in French Cinema 2, No. 3: 124-135. Price’s essay is quite important in Bresson criticism and does a…
Wrote this a few months back for a seminar presentation. Using it now for studying purposes, posting it here for reference. If anyone who reads this could offer any support,…
Francois Truffaut, “A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema,” in Movies and Methods, Vol. I, ed. Bill Nichols (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), 224-237. Considering how often it’s cited and…
Dudley Andrew, “The Godfather: Critic and Cahiers du Cinéma Founder André Bazin, Still With Us After Fifty Years,” Film Comment Nov-Dec 2009, 38-41. This is a short tribute kind of an essay,…
Philppe Mary, “Cinematic Microcosm and Cultural Cosmologies: Elements of a Sociology of the New Wave,” Cinema Journal 49, No. 4 (Summer 2010), 159-166. Despite what its abstract said, it felt like…
Vanessa R. Schwartz, “Who Killed Brigitte Bardot? Perspectives on the New Wave at Fifty,” Cinema Journal 49, No. 4 (Summer 2010), 145-152. This is a shorty but pithy essay in Cinema Journal‘s nouvelle…
Donald S. Skoller, “Praxis as a Cinematic Principle in Films by Robert Bresson,” Cinema Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Autumn 1969), 13-22. Skoller begins by defining “praxis” as an unfolding of…
