Scott, Tony Jeremy Carr October 2020 Great Directors b. 21 June, 1944, Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, UK d. 19 August, 2012, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA When Tony Scott passed away at the age of 68, his unexpected death sent shockwaves throug...
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 breaking the fourth wall. Further revealing the illusory na...
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom as Pasolini’s Film on Film Jeremy Carr April 2020 Feature Articles As a scathing indictment of the violence and debauchery revealed during the fascist reign of 1940s Italy, it is unparalleled. As a grotesquely perceptive commentary on the extremes of consumerist culture, it is...
Bad love: The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1974) Jeremy Carr April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film There has scarcely been a more unsettling and perversely potent love story than that which stimulates the precarious heart of Liliana Cavani’s Il portiere di notte (The Night Porter, 1974). Set in 1957 Vienna, ...
Rubble romance: A Foreign Affair (Billy Wilder, 1948) Jeremy Carr March 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film A United States congressional envoy flies over bombed-out Berlin, its members on their way to the East German city to evaluate the morale of occupying American servicemen. Looking down at the devastation with a...
Instant Access: A Digital Golden Age for Film Fans Jeremy Carr October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The conversation concerning developments in streaming service providers and digital, on-demand distribution has largely revolved around the accessibility of the latest blockbuster, foreign release, or independe...
Stone, Oliver Jeremy Carr July 2019 Great Directors b. 15 September, 1946, New York City, New York, USA “You can’t be an individual in this world, Huckleberry, and expect to get away with it. Only a few do.” Following in the footsteps of such controversial lum...
Dovzhenko, Alexander Jeremy Carr December 2018 Great Directors b. 10 September, 1894, Sosnitsa, Ukraine d. 25 November, 1956, Moscow, Russia “I sit down beside Pudovkin,” writes Sergei Eisenstein in 1928, after he and his filmmaking compatriot Vsevolod Pudovkin attend ...
Visconti, Luchino Jeremy Carr June 2018 Great Directors b. 2 November, 1906, Milan, Lombardy, Italy d. 17 March, 1976, Rome, Lazio, Italy Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone was born to a life of respectability, authority, and affluence. This noble upbringing, a...
Minnie and Moskowitz Jeremy Carr March 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film On the surface, the relationship between Minnie Moore (Gena Rowlands) and Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) doesn’t seem like a normal romantic engagement – which is just as well, because John Cassavetes was n...
Ophuls, Max Jeremy Carr December 2017 Great Directors 6 May, 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany d. 26 March, 1957, Hamburg, Germany Like the elaborate camera manoeuvres that enrich his multinational filmography, the career of Max Ophuls has been one of dynamic fluctuati...
Tarr, Béla Jeremy Carr June 2017 Great Directors 21 July, 1955, Pécs, Hungary Béla Tarr insists that his films do not fall into distinctive periods, preferring to identify something akin to a steady evolution rather than marked turning points. Arguing, for e...