A Wedding Suit (Abbas Kiarostami, 1976) Alicia Byrnes January 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Godfrey Cheshire, film critic and author of the volume Conversations with Kiarostami, describes A Wedding Suit as “a gem-like masterpiece that anticip...
Children of the Revolution: Abbas Kiarostami’s First Graders (1984) Adrian Danks January 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Avaliha (First Graders, 1984) is a fascinating transitional work in Abbas Kiarostami’s career. Although it is, in many ways, a precursor to both Khane...
And the road goes on: Fellow Citizen (Abbas Kiarostami, 1983) Jean-Baptiste de Vaulx January 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1983, when the late great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami made his medium-length documentary Fellow Citizen, Iran was still in the throes of its...
Some Enchanted Evening: Mitchell Lesien and Preston Sturges’ Remember the Night (1940) Adrian Danks January 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Mitchell’s Leisen’s Remember the Night (1940) is most commonly discussed as the last film Preston Sturges wrote before becoming a director. It is ofte...
Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948) Michael Koller January 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film This essay was originally published in Cteq: Annotations on Film, no. 1 (1996), pp. 18-20, and appears here with a small number of minor changes. A...
Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges, 1944) Rick Thompson January 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film This article originally appeared in CTEQ: Annotations on Film, no. 1 (1998), published in Metro, no. 113/114 (1998), p. 131. It is reprinted with the ...
His Particle, Somewhere: Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012) Duncan Caillard June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Apichatpong’s father died in 2003, and his ashes were spread in the Mekong. During an interview for this year’s Berlinale, for which the director call...
Anthems and Illusions: On a Few Shorts By Apichatpong Weerasethakul Brian Darr June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Imagine that every time you went to the movies you had a chance to see your favorite short film, right after the upcoming attractions trailers and bef...
The Strange Beast: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) Donovan Renn June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film If you're looking for explanations or answers to the mysteries of this beguiling film, the original Thai title might be a clue: Sud pralud. You can he...
Worldly Desires (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2005) Darragh O’Donoghue June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film A jungle in Thailand at night, filmed in one long shot. There are the murmurs of nature. Lights flash onto a clearing - the spotlights of a film crew....
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002) Thomas Moran June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film What does it mean to sign off a letter with the phrase blissfully yours? What would it mean to translate an afternoon of bliss into a two-hour film? ...
Not so unknown after all: Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d’un inconnu (Autobiography of an Unknown) (Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1983) Jytte Holmqvist June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film A film is not the telling of a dream, but a dream in which we all participate together through a kind of hypnosis, and the slightest breakdown in the ...
