Dekalog, jeden Michael Da Silva September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film When Roger Ebert taught Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog (The Decalogue, 1989) at the University of Chicago, he had difficulties pairing the Ten Commandments with the ten films. According to Ebert, “there was no ...
Dekalog, pięć Michael Da Silva September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The lawyer (and future Polish senator) Krzysztof Piesiewicz met the director Krzysztof Kieślowski while the latter was shooting a documentary on the courts under Polish martial law. Piesiewicz, who would go on ...
East of Eden Michael Da Silva March 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “East of Eden is more personal to me; it is more my own story. One hates one’s father; one rebels against him; finally one cares for him, one recovers oneself, one understands him, one forgives him, and one say...
Fever Michael Da Silva October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film An adaptation of socialist writer Andrzej Strug’s 1910 novel The Story of a Bullet (1), Agnieszka Holland’s Goraczka. Dzieje jednego pocisku (Fever) – which shifts emphasis to the “life” or “biography” of a bom...
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trials Michael Da Silva October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film The 10th District Court fascinates less as a legal experience (although I’d love to watch this movie through a lawyer’s eyes) and more as an ethnographic one. (1) English-language legal scholarship on French P...
On the Subjective Æsthetic of Adrian Lyne’s Lolita Michael Da Silva September 2009 Feature Articles Though much derided on its release, Michael Da Silva provides an insightful analysis of the æsthetic logic that informs Lyne’s adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s infamous classic.
