“An Artist Always Paints His Own Portrait”: Jean Cocteau’s Testament of Orpheus (1960) Wheeler Winston Dixon July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1959, just four years before his death from a heart attack, Jean Cocteau knew that his time was running out after years of ill health, opium addict...
Les Enfants Terribles (Jean-Pierre Meville, 1950) Ben Kooyman July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Writing about Les Enfants Terribles in mid-2020 during a global pandemic, it is tempting to draw parallels between the seclusion of real-world citizen...
Between Dreams and Death: Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus (1950) Adrian Danks July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film In Greek mythology, Orpheus is a talented musician who travels to the underworld to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice. Upon entering the realm of the...
Family Matters: Les Parents terribles (Jean Cocteau, 1948) Adrian Danks July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Les Parents terribles begins with hand-drawn animation of a theatre curtain rising to reveal not a stage, or even a wide shot, but a jarring close-up ...
Once Out of Nature: Juraj Jakubisko and Perinbaba (1985) Nicholas Bugeja July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing. — W. B. Yeats The Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko has been described b...
Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969): the Rule of Three in Juraj Jakubisko’s Exemplary Gallows Bacchanalia Cerise Howard July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Jakubisko is kin to Brazil's Glauber Rocha, America's Robert Downey, Mexico's Alejandro Jodorovski, Yuri Ilyenko of the Ukraine, Sergei Paradzhanov of...
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994) Darragh O’Donoghue July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film From its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994, it was clear how deeply Through the Olive Trees was embedded in the past. It was the thi...
Realism, Morality and Care in Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) Sandra E. Lim July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Kahne-ye doust kodjast? (Where is the Friend’s House?, 1987), is the first of three interrelated films in Abbas Kiarostami’s “Koker trilogy”, named af...
Looking for LGBT+ History: Barbara Hammer’s Nitrate Kisses (1992) Kristi McKim July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film “For if one history is lost, all of us are less rich than before.” — Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer’s first feature-length film, Nitrate Kisses (1992)...
Hard Labour: Cecil Holmes’s Captain Thunderbolt (1953) Adrian Danks April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film This is an extended and amended version of an article that first appeared in Directory of World Cinema: Australia & New Zealand, edited by Ben Gol...
Adrift in the Shadows of Fog: Forget Love for Now (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1937) Rolland Man April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film In his book In Praise of Shadows Junichiro Tanizaki identified in 1933 the attraction to shadows as one principle of Japanese aesthetics: “We delight ...
