The “Faraway Forest” in Peter Strickland’s Katalin Varga, The Duke of Burgundy, and The Cobbler’s Lot Samm Deighan July 2019 The Analogues of Peter Strickland Throughout folklore, the forest is a place beyond social convention, of lawlessness and disorientation. It is home to brigands and monsters, and yet also offers refuge. The forest becomes a physical manifestati...
Grandrieux, Philippe Samm Deighan June 2018 Great Directors 1954, Saint-Étienne, France “Cinema is made (above all) with the hands, with the skin, with the entire body, by fatigue, by breath, by the pulsations of the blood, the rhythm of the heart, by the muscles...
All Mimsy Were the Borogoves: The Spectre of Lewis Carroll in Francesco Barilli’s The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974) Samm Deighan March 2018 Alice in Wonderland In Francesco Barilli’s Il profumo della signora in nero (The Perfume of the Lady in Black, 1974), the lonely, central figure of Silvia is played by American actress Mimsy Farmer. Not only does the character of ...
Gone to Earth: The Pagan Pastoral in Powell and Pressburger Samm Deighan May 2017 Feature Articles The host is riding from Knocknarea And over the grave of Clooth-na-bare; Caolte tossing his burning hair And Niamh calling Away, come away: Empty your heart of its mortal dream. -William Butler Yeats, “T...
