Buena Vista Social Club Inge Fossen October 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film Among European filmmakers of the highest order, only Federico Fellini has had an identification with travel and the road as metaphors for life remotely as strong as Wim Wenders. The road movie is, of course, mo...
L’Opéra-Mouffe Inge Fossen June 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film How does one avoid sounding sexist when discussing a great female artist like Agnès Varda and her work against the swirlingly relativistic backdrop of current gender theory? It seems moronic to ignore her gende...
A Star Revealed as Oceania’s Persistent Film Clichés Bite the Dust: A Look Back at the First Scene in Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright, 1992) Inge Fossen February 2014 Key Moments in Australian Cinema Where does one begin a piece on Russell Crowe, Oceania’s most precocious and visible film export after Nicole Kidman? Which scene or what image first “made” him and encapsulated his particular qualities? The ma...
Hôtel du Nord Inge Fossen December 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The legendary collaboration with radical poet and supremely gifted scenarist Jacques Prévert, who was associated with the broad Leftist Popular Front coalition in the decade leading up to the abject betrayal of...
A Woman Under the Influence Inge Fossen March 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Woman Under the Influence is a rarity. It manages to be both an incisive commentary on sexual politics, and one of the great heterosexual love stories of modern American film, independent or otherwise. The fi...