Le jour se lève: Along the noir continuum Shari Kizirian October 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Looking at Marcel Carné’s Le jour se lève (Daybreak, 1939), it’s easy to see how American films noir ended up with a French name. Part of the cinemati...
Thérèse Raquin Daniel Phuoc Wilson October 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film A dark domestic interior suffused with an insidious pall; a world aghast at the horrors of an existentialism fashioned by disenchantment and pessimism...
Les Portes de la nuit Brad Weismann October 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film “They’re all the same. You warn them, but they won’t listen. If you don’t warn them, when it happens, they blame fate. It’s like they enjoy having pro...
Trouble in Paradise: Ikarie XB 1’s Music and Sound Austin Lancaster October 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film "...nothing in the world is easier than writing utopias" - Leszek Kolakowski Philip Glass declared that there were two ways to compose film music: th...
Lisa and the Devil Inge Fossen September 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Mario Bava entered the Italian film industry as an extremely resourceful cameraman, make-up artist, special effects worker and screenwriter way back i...
The Girl Who Knew Too Much Alexia Kannas September 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film “It happened right there,” Nora says to her new friend Laura, pointing with her eyes to the place where, on her first night in Rome, she witnessed a b...
Rabid Dogs Darragh O’Donoghue September 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Mario Bava’s many passionate fans are in no doubt about his status as a major auteur. He is one of the few named filmmakers whose works guarantee huge...
Playful Provocation: Hypermediacy in Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik Kyle Sossamon September 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film We begin with a heist. But not quite – we really begin with an elaborate ploy, a project of misdirection. Inspector Ginko (Michel Piccoli) has orchest...
Kill, Baby… Kill! Ian Olney September 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film 2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the release of Operazione paura (Kill, Baby… Kill!, 1966), the film widely considered to be horror maestro Mario Ba...
The Faces of Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath Kristian Ramsden September 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film The original Italian title for Mario Bava’s 1963 film, I tre volti della paura, which translates as “The Three Faces of Fear,” is far more appropriate...
Filmmaking at the end of the world: The Quiet Earth Gregory Bennett August 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Is there a more convincing definition of Aotearoa New Zealand cinema than Geoff Murphy’s three-film directorial run of Goodbye Pork Pie (1981), Utu (1...
Porno, Disco, and Summer of Sam: Spike Lee on Sexuality Desirae Embree July 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film At the time of its release Summer of Sam (1999) was seen as a notable departure for Spike Lee, whose body of work up to that point had been predominat...
4 Little Girls Darragh O’Donoghue July 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film The most memorable moment in Spike Lee’s documentary 4 Little Girls (1997) occurs nearly halfway through, as two veterans remember participating in th...
A Pedagogy of Resistance: From Double Consciousness to the Unified Self in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X Sandra E. Lim July 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film The first few minutes of Spike Lee’s Malcolm X (1992) are easy to miss. The Warner Brothers logo appears against a cotton-ball cerulean sky. A voiceov...
25th Hour Michael Bodhi Green July 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Wake the fuck up. It’s over after tonight.” This line is uttered by Frank (Barry Pepper) to his buddy Jacob (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in Spike Lee’...
School Daze-d and Confused Sebastian Carrasco July 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film What would you have done in moments of great fracture and systemic injustice? We tend to think of ourselves as moral beings, always standing firm and ...
About Endlessness Martyn Bamber June 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film 1. Anecdotes The other day, I don’t know if it was in Stockholm or London. Pouring rain. I saw a little girl, about seven years old, holding an umbre...
In the Afterglow: Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Adrian Danks June 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Roy Andersson’s En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron (A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, 2014) is the final part of his “...
You, The Living Jamie Jungyoon Tak June 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film ‘Be pleased then, you, the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave licks your escaping foot.’ – Johann Wolfgang von...
Nine Commercials by Roy Andersson Iris Chen June 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film The characters in a Roy Andersson advertisement wear whiteface: a memento mori. It’s one of the reasons why one watches these otherwise ordinary scene...
Summer Pleasure: Swedish Naturalist Painting in A Swedish Love Story Eli Vannata June 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film En Kärlekshistoria (A Swedish Love Story, Roy Andersson, 1970) is a unique film in a body of work known for its idiosyncrasy. Watching Roy Andersson’s...
Human Poems: Roy Andersson’s Songs from the Second Floor Cerise Howard June 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1970, a Swedish filmmaker in his mid-twenties became an instant critical darling with his debut feature: a lyrical, Czechoslovak New Wave-inflected...
Life Without Principle: “I Understand Completely” Sankeerthna Vedamtam May 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film It is both grimly amusing and frankly unsurprising that the entire global economic system again seems on the verge of collapse, à la 2008’s global fin...
Running on Karma Faith Everard May 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film All the world will be your enemy, Prince With a Thousand Enemies – Watership Down Though Dai zek lo (Running on Karma, Johnnie To, 2003) follows B...
Knives Out: Johnnie To’s Election Kevin Bui May 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film “If I betray the trust of my sworn brothers, then I shall be killed by ten thousand knives.” – The 36 Oaths of the Triad Initiation Ceremony Acc...
Away From Her Grace Boschetti May 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Although she was only in her 20s, Sarah Polley was already a veteran actress when she set out to direct her first feature film. For this intended debu...
Through the Looking Glass: The Gold Diggers Isabella Gullifer-Laurie May 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Sally Potter characterised her first feature, The Gold Diggers (1983), as “a musical describing a female quest.” A labyrinthine, post-punk exploration...
The Go-Between Gabrielle O'Brien May 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Based upon L.P. Hartley’s 1953 novel, The Go-Between (Joseph Losey, 1971) is an elegant film in its pristine formal composition and beguiling Edwardia...
Billy Liar Peter A. Yacavone April 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Film studies has never properly reckoned with film performance. As its scholars are primarily concerned with the cultural symbology and influence of s...
The Girl in the Empty Dress – Julie Christie and Darling David Melville April 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film HE: How do you feel? SHE: Empty. – Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie, Darling The iconic opening scene of Darling (John Schlesinger, 1965) shows th...
The Sound of Waves Iris Chen April 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Photographs and films cannot show you that the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake was “the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan” nor say outright that ...
Heaven Is Still Far Away Andréas Giannopoulos April 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film “A lot of journalists have asked me why my characters are always roleplaying If somebody wants to be or have something, the fastest way to make it ha...
Lost in a dream: Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s Asako I & II Danica van de Velde April 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film The prologue of Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s Nete mo samete mo (Asako I & II, 2018) is imbued with the adrenaline-inducing intoxication of love at first si...
I Love Thee For Good and Like Nothing Happened Darragh O’Donoghue April 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Archaic and awkward in its phrasing, the English title of Eien ni kimi wo aisu (I Love Thee For Good, Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2009) refers to a wedding, an...
Between Stops: Non-Places in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Tito Ramos Quiling, Jnr. April 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film A woman steps onto an escalator in Sendai Station. She believes she recognises someone on the ascending side – a face from 20 years ago, a friend she ...
“To all those who said we couldn’t do it – get stuffed!”: 27A Stephen Gaunson March 2026 CTEQ Annotations on Film Esben Storm and Haydn Keenan first crossed paths at University High School in Melbourne in a cohort that also included future luminaries of Australia...
