“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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
That Obscure Object of Desire – Luis Buñuel and the universality of desire.
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In his essay The Object of Desire and the Totality of the Real, Georges Bataille speaks to the unrelenting nature of passion and its precarious relationship to the intellect. In reality, what fascinates in this way speaks to passion but has nothing to say to the intellect. Thus it appears, in many cases, that the latter […]
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