I wanted to make a film about human nature and its innate reaction against repression and laws which are imposed on it. Jerzy kawalerowicz In the history of films about demonic possession, probably the three most important are The Exorcist, The Devils and Mother Joan of the Angels. Interestingly, both The Devils and Mother Joan […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
March
27
Mother Joan of the Angels – Jerzy Kawalerowicz and repression in “Devil Possession” films. (film review)
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March
26
The Credeaux Canvas – Sure Foot Productions does Keith Bunin. (theatre review)
posted by lisathatcher
In an interview for AIMbitious TV, Keith Bunin talks about solving the “problem” of writing and also asserts that deep engagement with this process is the role of art in general. For Bunin, his writing is involved with the problems we face and the pain we cause when we are trying to love each other. […]
March
26
Bardo Pond – Yantra: Three epic tracks of dense textural landscape. (music review)
posted by lisathatcher
Like all the releases in the Latitudes collection, Bardo Pond’s Yntra arrived on the shelves in limited editions of collector-grade beauty. The three track mini album still clocks out at just over thirty seven minutes leaving with a hefty Bardo Pond vibe combined with a freedom-of-expression improv feel. The result still garners all that Bardo […]
March
26
Rust and Bone – Jacques Audiard’s film on Melodrama. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
When Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain decided to make a film based on Craig Davidson’s book of short stories Rust and Bone, it wasn’t for the plot, or even the characters. It was for the intensity of lives blown out of proportion by drama and accident. There was a complex relationship between hard lives and […]
March
24
Katzelmacher – Fassbinder makes his first “bourgeois” film. (film review)
posted by lisathatcher
When Fassbinder called Katzelmacher his frist “bourgeois” film (it was made in August 1969 over nine days and is his second feature ever made) word has it he called it that because it is a film conceived against real life rather than other films. The first film he made, Love is Colder than Death (a […]
March
24
2013 Lammy Awards – The Submissions, The Nominations and me.
posted by lisathatcher
I am a proud member of the LAMB (Large Association of Movie Blogs) and have been for just under a year now. I’m still not able to spend any social time on The Lamb, but what I do go there for is the large range of high quality film blogs available. Like everyone, I have […]
March
20
Warm Moonlight – Joseph Wurtenbaugh spins a tale of the supernatural. (fiction review)
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Warm Moonlight is a nice little novella – or rather a longish short story – that I found on Amazon in one of my rare moments of strolling around on that site. Joseph Wurtenbaugh writes under several names, as far as I can tell from his Amazon bio, and has several stories and novellas gathered together […]
March
20
Farewell My Queen – Benoît Jacquot and the object of desire between women. (French Film Festival film review)
posted by lisathatcher
I enjoyed this film much more than I expected to, but because it was capped off with a wonderful chance to chat with Benoît Jacquot who is a very charming man, it somehow turned a night at the cinema into an event. Farewell My Queen is billed as the final days of Marie Antoinette’s reign, but it is also a […]
March
16
Destroy, She Said – Marguerite Duras and the radical power of subversion. (fiction review)
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You’re all remarkably interested in her,’ says Bernard Alione. ‘Yes.’ ‘Might one inquire why?’ – his voice is stronger again. ‘Literary reasons,’ says Stein, laughing. He goes on laughing. Alissa watches him, enchanted. ‘So my wife’s a character in a novel?’ says Bernard Alione. He sneers. But his voice is still strained in spite of […]
March
16
Performance (A Late Quartet) – Yaron Zilberman’s astonishing debut. (film review)
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It is so interesting that I saw The Paperboy a week or so ago, and I put the writing problems of that film down to inexperience. Then I go to see Performance (titled A Late Quartet in the States) and it is easily one of the best films of 2012, coming from a first time […]
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