“She smelled of Tokyo”: Sensory connections in The Masseurs and a Woman (1938) Danica van de Velde April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film A prolific filmmaker who reportedly directed over 150 films between 1924 and 1959, Hiroshi Shimizu has arguably received only a fraction of the critic...
Shimizu Redivivus: A Woman Crying in Spring (Nakinureta haru no onna yo, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933) Joseph Sgammato April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Among the many differences the widely acknowledged dean of Japanese film scholars in the Anglophone world, Donald Richie, likes to point out between W...
A Hero of Tokyo (Tôkyô no eiyû, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1935) Hayley Scanlon April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film A contemporary of golden age directors such as Yasujirō Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Shimizu has been intermittently neglected in international ci...
I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (Robert Land, 1929) Eloise Ross April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film This lightly sophisticated comedy, indulging in its opportunities at the tail-end of two eras – those of silent cinema, and the Weimar Republic’s Gold...
The Major and The Minor (Billy Wilder, 1942) Karli Lukas April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film An earlier version of this article first appeared in CTEQ: Annotations on Film published in Metro no. 109 (1997): 53-54. After watching several of ...
Unfolding Florence – The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (Gillian Armstrong, 2006) Jytte Holmqvist April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rich, fascinating, stylish and lush in colour, Gillian Armstrong’s 2006 documentary Unfolding Florence – The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (nomina...
Daddy Nostalgie (Bertrand Tavernier, 1990) Lee Hill April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film It is tempting to view Daddy Nostalgie (Bertrand Tavernier, 1990), Dirk Bogarde’s last film, as an actor’s swan song or as a great director’s meditati...
Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide – A reworking of the Maternal Melodrama Gwendolyn Audrey Foster April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide (1987) can be seen as a variant on the maternal melodrama. It centres around the struggles of a teenaged young mother wh...
Grandeur and Decadence: Luchino Visconti’s The Damned (1969) Wheeler Winston Dixon April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Luchino Visconti’s La caduta degli dei (The Damned, 1969) is such an outrageously excessive and daring film that one wonders, in retrospect, how Visc...
‘You knew, of course, he was a homosexual’: Dirk Bogarde in Victim (Basil Dearden, 1961) Joanna Di Mattia April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Basil Dearden’s 1961 film, Victim, represents a significant moment in British film history. Released into a world where sex between adult men in the U...
Notes of an Itinerant Performer (Uta onna oboegaki, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941) Andrew Brooks April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film The mood of Hiroshi Shimizu’s Uta onna oboegaki (Notes of an Itinerant Performer, 1941) is marked by an image that is unremarkable in its brevity earl...
Despair (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978) Martyn Bamber April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first English language film Despair (1978) is a fascinating entry in his filmography: while it is set in Germany, it is his...
