Author Luke Aspell

In the Shadow of the Sun is the title of two films, substantially identical but materially distinct. The first, a silent Super 8 film made between 1972 and 1974 incorporating footage shot in 1971, was screened ...

Imagining October (1984) represents the culmination of two periods of transition in Derek Jarman’s work: his movement towards an explicitly political address, begun with his collaboration with Lee Drysdale on t...

b. 17 April 1923, Bangalore, India. d. 30 August 1994, Angoulême, Charente, France. “If you enjoy L’Eternel Retour, you may enjoy also King Kong, but not Black Narcissus. If you enjoy Black Narcissus you ca...

In History Lessons (Geschichtsunterricht), a young man drives in modern Rome, and interviews four ancient Romans – a banker, a peasant, a jurist and a writer – about the career of Julius Caesar. These exchanges...

In preparation for his arrival at Tate University, Harold Lamb (Harold Lloyd) has seen “The College Hero” six times, carefully rehearsing the jig and catchphrase of its protagonist. From this and other sources,...

The Wild Party was the first talkie for both star Clara Bow and director Dorothy Arzner, and is noted in the technical history of the early sound period for its introduction of the boom microphone. It is Arzner...

The morning routine of the Villa Amarosa has the vagueness of habit. The tenants come together slowly, in frames mostly weighted towards their rightward thirds, taken from high or low angles, in natural light. ...

When Ambrus (Zoltán Latinovits) drives to his father's farm in the last third of Cantata, viewers familiar with Miklós Jancsó's work will recognise the puszta, the Hungarian grass plain on which his best-known ...

On its original release, Mother was a critical success; it came seventh in Kinema Jumpo's annual poll for 1952 (1), and was one of the few Mikio Naruse films seen outside Japan in his lifetime. As his work has ...