Open Game – Our Strange Love for Martha Ivers David Melville March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film “You’re insane. You’re out of your mind. Me too! You see how close we are to each other?” - Kirk Douglas to Barbara Stanwyck in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers It is a dark and stormy night. The oldest and m...
Remembering the Future: L’Herbier and L’Inhumaine David Melville September 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film ‘On leaving the theatre one has the impression of having witnessed the birth of a new art.’- Adolf Loos What to say about a film that, ninety years on from its release, is still so far ahead of most of what ...
“Death Has No Master” – Roger Corman and The Masque of the Red Death David Melville May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions. There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of what might have excited disgus...