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 »
The Lobster
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster (2016) is one of the darkest films that I have seen this year. In terms of its concept and narrative structure Lanthimos’ film is clearly indebted… Read more »
From Here To Eternity
Director Fred Zinnemann is one of a handful of German directors, including Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk and Robert Siodmak, who relocated to Hollywood in the thirties. In terms of political… Read more »
The Red Balloon
When you are a little boy like I was when I saw The Red Balloon (1956) for the first time it has an indescribable effect on you. Sure a film… Read more »
The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon
Chris Marker’s The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon (1968) captures the fervor of the Yippies’ protest of the Vietnam war at the Pentagon on October 7th, 1967. This non-violent protest… Read more »
Polanski’s Macbeth
“Anyone with the most rudimentary literary training should be struck by the perverse backwardness of the adaptation-as-betrayal approach: The study of adaptation is clearly a form of source study and… Read more »
Pola X
In translating Melville’s novel onto film Carax has found his cinematic footing somewhere between Robert Bresson and André Téchiné. What exploitative qualities that exist in Pola X (1999) simply serve to better… Read more »
Gone Girl
David Fincher is one of those filmmakers whose style has become a commodity unto itself; often imitated, more often admired, and tremendously marketable. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Ridley… 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 »
Burn!
“He (Pontecorvo) has no fucking feeling for people.”-Marlon Brando By the time Marlon Brando signed to star in Burn! (1969) he had starred in a string of box-office flops including… Read more »
