News From Home – a film by Chantal Akerman
How long is a long take? That’s the question I was asking myself as I began watching this mesmerizing film which is basically a lot of long takes in New […]
How long is a long take? That’s the question I was asking myself as I began watching this mesmerizing film which is basically a lot of long takes in New […]
A film by Bryan Konefsky TRT 16.5 minutes, Bryan Konefsky 2005 In 1929 monocular vision was not limited to the gaze of telescopes (Edwin Hubble) or movie cameras (Dziga Vertov). […]
Watching the Trump years at the White House is like watching Citizen Kane without knowing how it ends, without even knowing what “rosebud” will mean. We are, however, picking up […]
I like discussing influences which may also be a way of simply saying I am not ashamed to admit where it all comes from….anyway, took a shot of a “back […]
Douglas Fairbanks as the greatest drug addict/detective in the history of cinema! Brilliant film from 1915 with a postmodern ending and you can see that being friends with Chaplin really, […]
Interesting film on California’s abandoned Salton Sea.
I have yet to see anything that so sublimely and elegantly shows how mankind and nature can cohabit this planet, yet we continue to lay a massive pounding on the […]
Awesome film by Luc Bourdon that you will not be able to stop watching if you have any interest in Montreal in the 50’s and 60’s. One of the first […]
À bout de souffle / Breathless
Released one year before the student protests in Paris in 1968 this film is still relevant in this time of the Occupy movement. Below is a description I like. “Godard does not […]
Low budget sci fi noir from Godard, you can do a lot worse. “Lemmy Caution is a secret agent with the code number of 003 from “the Outlands”. Entering Alphaville in his Ford […]
This film is equally known for it’s “attacks” on American culture in general and Stephen Spielberg in particular as it is for it’s hypercolour last third. Godard at his best. I will […]
Is it still winter? Going all artsy fartsy intellectual, and maybe having a bit of fun. Been working on something from King Lear lately and thought this film might inspire. […]
Harry Fabian is a small time con man with big dreams in 1950 London in glorious black and white. What could possibly go wrong? Night And The City