Shockproof (Douglas Sirk, 1949): The Insanity of Romantic Desire Wheeler Winston Dixon May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film “There is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.” – ...
The Grotesque Loves of Jealousy, Italian Style (Ettore Scola, 1970) Tiia Kelly May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film A florist named Adelaide (Monica Vitti) sits behind a concave glass window, quietly observing something we cannot see. She’s handed a drink by the wea...
A Geography of Fractured Desire: Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’eclisse (1962) Danica van de Velde May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’eclisse (The Eclipse, 1962) opens rather enigmatically with the fatigued denouement of the relationship between the film’s ...
Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964) Boyd van Hoeij May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il deserto rosso (Red Desert, 1964) was the Italian filmmaker’s first feature in colour. This might seem like a major change ...
‘You Can’t Make an Omelette…’ – Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey, 1966) and the Art of Breaking Eggs David Melville May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film “We must try to be more conspicuous!” - Monica Vitti, Modesty Blaise A typical scene in Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey, 1966) takes place in a hip Am...
Fritz Lang’s Spione (1928) Shari Kizirian May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film It begins like any good spy thriller should, with a fast-paced action-filled set up, here done in a style so clipped and cryptic it leaves us breathle...
An entertainment: Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear (1944) Andréas Giannopoulos May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Graham Greene’s 1943 novel The Ministry of Fear – a “wrong man” story set during the London Blitz in which a recently institutionalised person acciden...
Out of the Shadows: Cloak and Dagger (Fritz Lang, 1946) Ian Olney May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fritz Lang’s Cloak and Dagger (1946) is a far more interesting film than its middling reputation suggests. A spy story about an American physicist rec...
“A pin for me ’at”: Fritz Lang’s Man Hunt (1941) Adrian Danks May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Man Hunt is the first of a string of four bold anti-Nazi films – along with Hangmen Also Die! (1943), Ministry of Fear (1944) and Cloak and Dagger (19...
Fritz Lang in America: While the City Sleeps (1956) Wheeler Winston Dixon May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fritz Lang’s penultimate American film, While the City Sleeps (1956), is a serial killer drama, much like Lang’s classic film M (1931). Robert Manners...
M (Fritz Lang, 1931) Digby Houghton May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fritz Lang’s M (1931) is a cry for despair representing the dying moments of a free Germany before the reign of terror was concentrated under Adolf Hi...
The value of reproduction and the reproduction of value: Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010) Anders Furze March 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film “In even the most perfect reproduction, one thing is lacking: the here and now of the work of art – its unique existence in a particular place. It i...
