Once Upon a Time…: Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946) Jeremy Carr July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Scrawling the opening credits on a chalkboard, Jean Cocteau begins his 1946 romantic fantasy La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) by immediately...
The Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, 1932) Brad Weismann July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film In August of 1963, two months before his death, Jean Cocteau recorded on film a “speech to the year 2000” in which he mused on his creative process. H...
Once Out of Nature: Juraj Jakubisko and Perinbaba (1985) David Melville July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing. — W. B. Yeats The Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko has been described b...
Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969): the Rule of Three in Juraj Jakubisko’s Exemplary Gallows Bacchanalia Cerise Howard July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Jakubisko is kin to Brazil's Glauber Rocha, America's Robert Downey, Mexico's Alejandro Jodorovski, Yuri Ilyenko of the Ukraine, Sergei Paradzhanov of...
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994) Darragh O’Donoghue July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film From its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994, it was clear how deeply Through the Olive Trees was embedded in the past. It was the thi...
Lying About Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989) Kenta McGrath July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film “It’s a film about homework.” Or so Abbas Kiarostami tells a group of schoolboys who approach him on the street and ask what he’s filming. “Have you ...
Realism, Morality and Care in Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) Sandra E. Lim July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film 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 af...
“Reality Is Always Magic”: Experience (Abbas Kiarostami, 1973) Joseph Sgammato July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film When Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami unexpectedly passed away in 2016, he was deeply mourned by lovers of cinema. Martin Scorsese gave voice to the ...
Looking for LGBT+ History: Barbara Hammer’s Nitrate Kisses (1992) Gwendolyn Audrey Foster July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film “For if one history is lost, all of us are less rich than before.” — Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer’s first feature-length film, Nitrate Kisses (1992)...
Hard Labour: Cecil Holmes’s Captain Thunderbolt (1953) Adrian Danks April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film This is an extended and amended version of an article that first appeared in Directory of World Cinema: Australia & New Zealand, edited by Ben Gol...
Adrift in the Shadows of Fog: Forget Love for Now (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1937) Rolland Man April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film In his book In Praise of Shadows Junichiro Tanizaki identified in 1933 the attraction to shadows as one principle of Japanese aesthetics: “We delight ...
