A Sensually Complex World
To hell with it. Don’t worry about the audience. Don’t worry about the people. Your job is to look. Your Vocation is to look, not to entertain. Entertaining comes second…. Read more »
Category: Editorials
Comic Book Movies
A lot of noise is made about the upcoming film adaptation of a comic book today. Comics and movies, having always shared many aesthetic qualities, seem to have entered into… Read more »
Proof Of Cinema
“For at least two years I have felt ready to make some theoretical statements about film language in relation to the ‘Underground’ film. A problem which has held me up… Read more »
Reconstructed In Stillness
“I read, some days past, that the man who ordered the erection of the almost infinite wall of China was that first Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who also decreed that… Read more »
The Revisionist Western
“I created ‘The Westerner’ because of anger – anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters … anger at TV’s quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or… Read more »
Supply & Demand
It’s indisputable that the primary motivation of any financial endeavor in our capitalist society is profit, and such is the case with Hollywood. Films of a certain cost are designed… Read more »
Depicting Time
The concept of duration is essential to the artificial experience of time and memory in linear narrative filmmaking. Duration within the narrative, marking the passage of time, is signified most… Read more »
Vinyl en Vogue
Though the soundtrack music of a film often escapes serious consideration in most formal film criticism, anyone who has made a film and had the luxury of an original soundtrack… Read more »
Werner Herzog
In 1962, with the issuing of the Oberhausen Manifesto, New German Cinema began. For twenty years a generation of German filmmakers produced small, personal and decidedly nationalist films in response… Read more »
Elaine May
It seems that film history is finally being amended to accurately represent the contributions of women filmmakers. People like Shelley Stamp are working very hard to draw critical attention to… Read more »
