Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini, 1969): The Best of the Bad Adam Powell June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Lee Van Cleef passed away at the end of the 1980s, and his gravestone at the burial plot in the Hollywood Hills cemetery reads “Best of the Bad”. This epitaph is wholly appropriate, and inspires a multitude of ...
Opaque Atrocity: Aurora (Cristi Puiu, 2010) Adam Powell September 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997) was emblematic in the late nineties as a European auteur product rallying against the evils of homogeneous Hollywood style film making. It arrived in Cannes in 1997 to much c...
Hard Times (1975): Walter Hill’s Bareknuckle Ballad Adam Powell March 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film Peter Biskind’s sensationalist bestseller Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (1998) paints the picture of the great but crumbling Hollywood institution at the close of the sixties being stormed by a group of young and r...
Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982): Waking Dreams and Casting Spells in the Jungle Adam Powell March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Herzog is a music addicted gypsy who is a specialist on limited people (cripples, dwarfs, the blind and deaf) and has an outsized rage as extreme as his odd outre technique” - Manny Farber, 1975 As Herzog’s f...
The Red and The White (1967): The Political and Metaphysical Sequence Shot Adam Powell September 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film “For a while I was famous for my ‘long takes’, these sequence shots that last several minutes. At that time it was really special. Within these sequence shots there were close-ups and long shots – everything. F...
Naruse’s World of Women: Flowing (1956) Adam Powell June 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film One of leading directors of contemporary European cinema, Pedro Costa gave a lecture in Tokyo in 2005 where he outlined the potency of the great Japanese masters as both presenting and hiding certain images of ...
