La Bête
This piece originally appeared on a different blog in 2015. At the time the Film Society Of Lincoln Center was hosting a retrospective of Borowczyk’s work. Between April 2nd and… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
In A Year With 13 Moons
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s In A Year With 13 Moons (1978) tells the story Elvira (Volker Spengler), a trans woman in love with a man who “can never love anyone”, Anton… 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 »
Lightning Over Water
Wim Wenders is a filmmaker who has made some of the best films about the art of filmmaking. I’m speaking of Room 666, Tokyo-Ga, and Lightning Over Water. The first… Read more »
Der Fangschuss
In 1976, Volker Schlondorff released his twelfth film, Der Fangschuss. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Marguerite Yourcenar, written in 1939. Regular Schlondorff collaborators… Read more »
Vengeance Is Mine
There are no set parameters that define how inclusive or inconclusive the term “New Wave” is. In France, the New Wave occurred outside of the established studio system independently; in… Read more »
Live & Let Die
Sean Connery’s Bond is a tough, sexually aggressive and predatory character. He reflects the feeling of masculinity in jeopardy of his times, as swinging London gave way to the summer… Read more »
We Can’t Go Home Again
Recently I watched two films back to back that seemingly have very little in common. Upon a superficial examination these two films appear to only contrast one another. The first… Read more »
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Altman’s film McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a film of cultural anxiety and masculine identity, tied more closely with the time of its production than to the era in which its… Read more »
Coonskin
In 1946 Walt Disney released Song Of The South, a musical adaptation of Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories. The structure of Song Of The South, live action scenes of the storyteller bookending… Read more »
