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Author Adam Powell

Adam Powell

Adam Powell is a writer on cinema based in London. His primary research areas are the legacy of Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert Bresson in modes of realism in contemporary world cinema as well as post war British Cinema and London on film. He has conducted extensive interviews with Carlos Reygadas, Nicolas Winding Refn and Pedro Costa.

Sabata

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 ...
Aurora

Opaque Atrocity: Aurora (Cristi Puiu, 2010)

Adam Powell
September 2017
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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

Hard Times (1975): Walter Hill’s Bareknuckle Ballad

Adam Powell
March 2017
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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

Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982): Waking Dreams and Casting Spells in the Jungle

Adam Powell
March 2016
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“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 film review

The Red and The White (1967): The Political and Metaphysical Sequence Shot

Adam Powell
September 2015
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“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...
Flowing film review

Naruse’s World of Women: Flowing (1956)

Adam Powell
June 2015
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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 ...

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