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On Film Criticism #15: Struggle
Artwork by Neven Udovičić The upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival is bracing itself for possible interruptions by striking workers this week, who would certainly ensure their voices were heard by making the screens go dark. Simultaneously in the United States, screenwriters are striking to protest unfair working conditions and make a stand against the…
“It is the word and the image…”
Eduardo Coutinho’s film Man Marked For Death, 20 Years Later is a vivid example of his exploratory, equalitarian talking cinema Cabra Marcado para Morrer, or Man Marked For Death, 20 Years Later (1984), is a film that was made, broken down and remade under tremendous pressure and hostility, but driven by invention and a will…
On Blue Collar and Dog Eat Dog
Paul Schrader’s bookends to life in Capitalist America Separated by nearly 40 years, Blue Collar (1978) and Dog Eat Dog (2016), two films in Paul Schrader’s ever expanding body of work, have seemingly little in common. While one is a highly acclaimed film representing the best of the New Hollywood movement of the 1970s,…
Stop Laughing, This Is England
This sixty-year-old short film based on pictures and observations by Henri Cartier-Bresson is a scarily accurate and perceptive portrait of England then and now (still: ©La Cinémathèque Française) “What’s at the bottom of being English? Perhaps the answer is: no. A prohibition, an inhibition, far from whole hearted but generally observed.” This astonishingly accurate and…
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