Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges, 1944) Rick Thompson January 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film This article originally appeared in CTEQ: Annotations on Film, no. 1 (1998), published in Metro, no. 113/114 (1998), p. 131. It is reprinted with the ...
His Particle, Somewhere: Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012) Duncan Caillard June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Apichatpong’s father died in 2003, and his ashes were spread in the Mekong. During an interview for this year’s Berlinale, for which the director call...
Anthems and Illusions: On a Few Shorts By Apichatpong Weerasethakul Brian Darr June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Imagine that every time you went to the movies you had a chance to see your favorite short film, right after the upcoming attractions trailers and bef...
The Strange Beast: Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004) Donovan Renn June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film If you're looking for explanations or answers to the mysteries of this beguiling film, the original Thai title might be a clue: Sud pralud. You can he...
Worldly Desires (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2005) Darragh O’Donoghue June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film A jungle in Thailand at night, filmed in one long shot. There are the murmurs of nature. Lights flash onto a clearing - the spotlights of a film crew....
Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002) Thomas Moran June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film What does it mean to sign off a letter with the phrase blissfully yours? What would it mean to translate an afternoon of bliss into a two-hour film? ...
Not so unknown after all: Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d’un inconnu (Autobiography of an Unknown) (Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1983) Jytte Holmqvist June 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film A film is not the telling of a dream, but a dream in which we all participate together through a kind of hypnosis, and the slightest breakdown in the ...
Uta onna oboegaki (Notes of an Itinerant Performer, 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...
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...
Shimizu Redivivus: Nakinureta haru no onna yo (A Woman Crying in Spring, 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...
Pit Stop: Billy Wilder’s Mauvaise graine (1934) Adrian Danks April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film The low budget, independently-produced Mauvaise graine (1934) is an outlier in Billy Wilder’s career. Although it characteristically illustrates the v...
“This is You, You Bastards”: Ace in the Hole (1951) Deborah Allison April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Can you take it?” the Paramount publicity ads asked prospective audiences. “Can you stand pulse-pounding suspense? Can you take raw, tense drama? Can...
