Those Wonderful Movie Cranks Cerise Howard October 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film I always say that the 20th Century brought two unfortunate events: the invention of the atom bomb and the invention of the sound film. - Jiří Menzel ...
Larks on a String Amelia Leonard September 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film For a film addressing matters of political oppression, state sponsored disappearances and forced labour camps, one wouldn’t be blamed for thinking the...
Capricious Summer Alexander Back September 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Is the arrival of a cinematic New Wave first detected at a film festival? There are few earlier places for the public to notice – between the breaks, ...
Black Test Car Martyn Bamber September 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Yasuzo Masumura has an eclectic filmography that spans many genres. American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, an ardent champion of Masumura, notes tha...
Blind Beast Darragh O’Donoghue September 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film The traditional visual art of Japan – such as popular woodblock prints and handscrolls – was a shaping influence on the films of Yasuzō Masumura. He u...
Irezumi Faith Everard September 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film "Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly; " 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy…" "Oh no, no!" said the little fl...
New Waves for Old: L’Amour fou Joseph Sgammato July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film A note to the audience about to watch L’Amour fou, the 1969 film directed by Jacques Rivette: the movie is over four hours long. Be prepared – find a ...
Le Retour à Lumière: Jean Eustache’s Numéro Zéro Corey Cribb & Campbell Walker July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In an already complex, contested filmography, Numéro Zéro (1971) has always been the hardest of Jean Eustache’s films to see, yet Eustache himself spo...
Une sale histoire Darragh O’Donoghue July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In Une sale histoire (Jean Eustache, 1977), a dirty story is told – twice. The work comprises two notionally identical short films in which a middle-a...
Santa Claus has Blue Eyes Danica van de Velde July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In his influential 1966 new wave film Masculin féminin (Masculine Feminine), Jean-Luc Godard defined a generation of French adolescents as “the childr...
Boys Don’t Cry: Mes petites amoureuses David Heslin July 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In cinema, despair can, via expression and body language, be communicated in a range of subtle or exaggerated demonstrations, whether it be an anguish...
“Rang & Ranj” (Colour and Suffering), “Taar & Poud” (Warp and Weft): Negotiating Between Paradigms of Life in Gabbeh Khatereh Sheibani June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996) was the 16th cinematic production by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, one of the most acclaimed, yet controversial filmmakers of th...
Unveiling the Meta Skin of Marzieh Meshkiny’s The Day I Became a Woman Sandra E. Lim June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ruzi keh Zan Shodam (The Day I Became a Woman, Marzieh Meshkiny, 2000) is Marzieh Meshkiny’s debut film, produced by the Makhmalbaf Film House which w...
Two-Legged Horse Faith Everard June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the first moment we had never a thought That they were creatures to be owned and used. Among them were some half a dozen colts Dropped in some w...
The Apple Martyn Bamber June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film At the time of the 2004 UK cinema release of Samira Makhmalbaf’s third feature Panj é asr (At Five in the Afternoon, 2003), an introduction to an arti...
Symphony in Red-sharp Major – The Silence Rolland Man June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film As persistent echoes that afar consort In dim and intense accord Colossal as the dark and as the glow, Scents, hues and sounds agree. – Charles ...
That Passionate Night in Rome: Mario Monicelli and Suso Cecchi d’Amico’s The Passionate Thief Yilin (River) Jiang May 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Risate di gioia (The Passionate Thief, Mario Monicelli, 1960) marked a reunion for the Italian comedy director Mario Monicelli and the most illustriou...
A Swim with Love and Death: Zurlini, Cecchi d’Amico and Violent Summer David Melville May 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film The war is over and we’ve lost. What matters is to come out alive. – Eleonora Rossi Drago, Violent Summer One of the few violent moments in Estate...
La signora senza camelie Adrian Danks May 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film This article was originally published by “Cteq: Annotations on Film” when it appeared in Metro, no. 117 (1998). It is republished here with permission...
Luchino Visconti’s L’innocente Shari Kizirian May 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film L’innocente (The Innocent, 1976) was not the film Luchino Visconti initially set out to make and certainly was not intended to be his last. Even as th...
Bluebeard’s Castle, or The Horror Chambers of Doctor Powell David Melville May 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film There is gore on everything; opera is synonymous with bloodshed and erotic violence. – Peter Conrad In the beginning was the Word – and the Word w...
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...
Our Time Will Come Seán Cubitt April 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Winner of Best Film and Best Director at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards, Ming yue ji shi you (Our Time Will Come, 2017) is the 29th film directed by A...
Boat People Andrew Le April 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, many people endeavoured to escape the country, with the main method available being by boat. It is estim...
The Secret Faith Everard April 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film It’s strange to witness a film so visually bewitching and yet so narratively disorganised. Fūng gip (The Secret, Ann Hui, 1979) is such a film: comple...
Yackety Yack, Don’t Talk Back Adrian Danks March 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Shot in late 1972 and released at the Melbourne Filmmakers Co-op in mid-September 1974, Dave Jones’ Yackety Yack is one of the key films made in that ...
Queensland Digby Houghton March 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film It is July and Richmond are teetering on a spot in the top eight in the Australian Football League (AFL), a sport that is akin to a religion in Melbou...
A Splash of Light in the Darkness: Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire Wheeler Winston Dixon March 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947), often classified as a film noir, and one of the first Hollywood films dealing with antisemitism, didn’t start out wi...
“I Know a Way…”: Sudden Fear Ian Olney March 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hollywood never knew what to do with Gloria Grahame. When Grahame’s movie career stalled in the early 1960s, she had only been in the business for fif...
Tribute to a Tyrant: The Bad and the Beautiful Grace Boschetti March 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film When Gloria Grahame won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her sub-ten-minute performance in Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beauti...
Pirandello on Film: Kaos Joseph Sgammato February 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Kaos unites the Taviani brothers with Nobel Prize-winning author Luigi Pirandello for an explosion of onscreen Siciliana. As they had done for Sardini...
Caesar Must Die Faith Everard February 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film “His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man.”” - Anthony, in Wi...
Padre Padrone Martyn Bamber February 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film From its opening moments, Padre Padrone (1977) defies expectations. On the surface, this film by brothers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, which is based o...
The Night of the Shooting Stars Darragh O’Donoghue February 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film The landscape is never simply a landscape for the Taviani Brothers. Whether fertile or barren, and in Sardinia or Sunset Boulevard, the landscape is m...
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t Faith Everard February 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film The first feminist gesture is to say: “OK, they’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is...
Anna Darragh O’Donoghue February 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Is Anna (Pierre Koralnik, 1967) desperately modish or a critique of desperate modishness? Like most social satires, it prefers to have its cake and ea...
