Tag Archives: film

It’s that which is in plain sight that you can’t see, that is the most interesting.

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I’ve had a bit of a film epiphany this year. I always loved film, but for many and various reasons, only came to discover the very best of film this year – rather late in life. Maybe not late in life, but a long time later than I would have prefered. In 2001 I saw […]

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Francois Ozon: Film as art, art as film.

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“I think cinema has to deal with desire. In the cinema, you are with a big screen, it is dark, and you watch some images, like a fantasy, so I think it is important for you to feel desire for what you see.” So, I did write in my post Top ten films blog-a-thon, that […]

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Midnight in Paris – Woody’s letter to himself.

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Woody Allen likes to make films for himself and if other people like them too, well, that’s just darling. If he wants to  copy a Bergman, he does it. If he wants to bash on endlessly about his neurosis, he does it. if He wants to be asking the same questions about the invisible pathways between men […]

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Norwegian Wood: Death, grief and sex.

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Ok – so I am now reading this because the film is so alluring, I decided to take on my first Haruki Mirukami novel. (The great love recommended it to me as well, and who can resist that combination?) This novel has been called impossible to adapt for film. It is the fifth of Mirukami’s […]

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In a year with 13 moons – Fassbinder and the desperation of love

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“Every seventh year is a moon year. People whose lives are strongly influenced by their emotions suffer more intensely from depression in these years. To a lesser degree this is also true of years with 13 moons. When a moon year also has 13 new moons, inescapable personal tragedies may occur. In the 20th Century […]

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Mouchette: The Muses never talk to each other, but sometimes they dance.

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“For me the order and position of characters and the framing of the shot are the essence of cinema. They’re much more important than simple dramatic action which is only revealed through the form the shot takes. In cinema what matters is the form, and this must be given priority.”  Robert Bresson And so Mouchette begins with […]

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