The Passion of Joan of Arc (dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928) – Paul Schrader calls this a key example of the “transcendental style in film,” from his book by that…
There are many and eclectic takes on Robert Bresson’s work, and only a little on which there is unanimity. The consensus is essentially that his films are marvelous, beautiful, formally…
With a structure alone that sets it apart from the fraught-with-contemporary-failures category of biopics, Paul Shrader’s Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters is marvelous to behold, swelling with rhapsodic music,…
Precious Bodily Fluids 