The Cruelty of Time: Amour Alex Williams April 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film In Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012), death is smelt before it is seen. The film opens with a shocking discovery: emergency services breach a sealed Parisian apartment following complaints of an odour emanating fro...
Seeing Colours: The Thief of Bagdad (1940) Alex Williams May 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Archers thought in colour from The Thief of Bagdad onwards. When British producer Alexander Korda set out to remake Raoul Walsh’s silent epic The Thief of Bagdad (1924), his intention was not fidelity to t...
Afflictions of Pain and Desire: The River (Tsai Ming-liang, 1997) Alex Williams May 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film A film crew is assembled at the bank of a river, struggling to make a mannequin look like a real dead body. The figure lies face-down in the grey water, but its imitation of human physicality is not quite right...
