It’s difficult to watch La Strada. What do you say about a film that has been talked about endlessly and a director who is worshipped endlessly? It’s hard to rise above the ocean of feeling pulsing through the stream in which one swims. I can’t help being a woman in 2011, aware of the masculine […]
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant – Fassbinder and the art of woman
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“He stank like a man. The way men stink. What had once had its charms now turned my stomach and brought tears to my eyes.” The further along my Fassbinder journey I travel, the more pleased I find myself with his films. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is another fine fine film from […]
Les Enfants Terribles: A Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville masterpiece.
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I had the intense pleasure of watching Les Enfants Terribles yesterday, an experience not unlike being in a dorothy-like tornado of subversion. This astonishingly perversive film – made ten years before La Nouvelle Vague – had me clearly seeing why Jean Pierre Melville was called the godfather of the French New wave. Apparently Jean Cocteau […]
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Submissions
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I am happy to review the following: Please email all review requests to: sendlisamessage(at)gmail(dot)com Books – Literary style, I prefer not to review genre. I have to allocate time carefully, and genre (romance, horror, sci-fi, detective, bizzarro etc) is not my strong suit, as I do not normally read these kinds of books. I am […]
About Lisa
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Lisa Thatcher Lisa Thatcher is a novelist, short story writer and reviewer. Lisa is a member of the Australian Film Critics Association and the Australian Society of Authors. Short stories have been published in The Black Herald Press, Le Zaparorgue, and The Indie Reader. Lisa has written music reviews for Dusted Magazine and Slant Magazine. She […]
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To contact Lisa regarding anything to do with this blog, please mail: sendlisamessage@gmail.com or lisathatcher3@gmail.com
Nosferatu (1979) – Herzog’s classic take on a classic
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Like Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of those stories that is re-made on a fairly consistent basis. If you don’t like the latest incarnation of the count, wait a few years and there will be another. 1979 was a particularly good vintage for the vampire from Transylvania. Three major interpretations of his tale reached […]
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