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Author Sandra E. Lim

Sandra E. Lim

Sandra E. Lim currently lectures on Politics and Film at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. She holds a PhD in Art and Design for the Moving Image, from the University of Brighton in the UK. Her writing on films and art can be found in the journals Screenworks and Reconstruction. Additionally, her moving image work is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (CFMDC) Toronto.

Realism, Morality and Care in Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)

Sandra E. Lim
July 2020
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Kahne-ye doust kodjast? (Where is the Friend’s House?, 1987), is the first of three interrelated films in Abbas Kiarostami’s “Koker trilogy”, named after the northern Iranian village where the films are set. Th...

The Tribulations of the Working Class: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)

Sandra E. Lim
February 2020
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Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1948) marked Vittorio De Sica’s eighth directorial credit in a prolific filmmaking career, which had included work produced within the dictates of Italy’s government-contro...

Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954): A “Superwestern” from the Postwar Hollywood Left

Sandra E. Lim
March 2019
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At the end of the American Civil War and during the height of the Franco–Mexican War, circa 1866, Joe Erin (Burt Lancaster) and Ben Trane (Gary Cooper) make their way into Mexico looking to sell their services ...

Rehabilitating the Hollywood Left in Thom Andersen and Noël Burch’s Red Hollywood (1996/2014)

Sandra E. Lim
March 2018
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In the opening titles, Red Hollywood (Tom Andersen and Noël Burch, 1996/2014) declares itself a compilation film. Compilation films are a form of historical and documentary practice, with roots in early Soviet ...

Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

Sandra E. Lim
March 2017
Love Letters: 1967
Revisiting Playtime’s Style of Comic Democracy Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967) is the third of four films based on the character of Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati), which follows a self-effacing everyman as he vis...
Meet John Doe

Individualism and Populism in Frank Capra’s Meet John Doe (1941)

Sandra E. Lim
March 2016
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Meet John Doe (Frank Capra, 1941), is the story of down and out baseball player Long John Willoughby (Gary Cooper), who having never quite made it to the major league, has taken up the carefree life of a hobo, ...

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