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 done your homework?” Kiarostami asks them, in turn. A resoun...
Pass it on: Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000) Kenta McGrath April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Mysterious Object at Noon. Even at a first glance, Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first feature has one of the most evocative titles in the history of cinema (the original title, Dogfahr ...
3/11 Cinema Kenta McGrath October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The multifaceted disaster which struck Japan’s northeastern Tōhoku region on 11 March 2011 – a magnitude-9 earthquake, which triggered a devastating tsunami then the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl – resul...
Off the Road Again: Stuff and Dough (Cristi Puiu, 2001) Kenta McGrath September 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film It wasn’t until Cristi Puiu’s breakthrough second feature The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu, 2005) and a remarkable string of successes by his young Romanian contemporaries that many paid a...
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004) Kenta McGrath June 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai, 2004) is a fictionalisation of an infamous incident from 1988, whereby a mother left her four children – all born to different fathers and, with the possible e...
