A City in Transition in Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985) Nicholas Bugeja October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film The principal discovery being made by Taiwanese directors is their own history This new field of inquiry must negotiate the coexistence of colonizer...
Love and Suffocation in Man Is Not a Bird (Dušan Makavejev, 1965) Nicholas Bugeja October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Makavejev aims to tear down and rebuild the basic blocks of moviemaking itself. Toggling easily, even imperceptibly, between fiction and documentary, ...
Outrage (1950): Ida Lupino’s Vision of Rape Trauma Alexandra Heller-Nicholas October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film In a cultural and industrial landscape significantly altered by the barrage of sexual-abuse and harassment allegations against now-notorious Hollywood...
Riding, Jumping, Standing Still: Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah, 1972) Adrian Danks October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Although Sam Peckinpah’s films are routinely described in terms of their often-fetishistic fascination with violence, influential deployment of such d...
Ruin (Michael Cody & Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 2013) Rhiannon Dalglish October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Debuting at the Venice Film Festival in 2013 and winning the Orizzonti sidebar’s Special Jury Prize, Ruin (Michael Cody & Amiel Courtin-Wilson, 20...
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) Stephen Gaunson October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film The production of The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) began with a story written by Robert Joseph, titled “The Persuader”, in which two ex-army buddies...
Thriller: “The Bride Who Died Twice” (Ida Lupino, 1962) Wheeler Winston Dixon October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film While Ida Lupino is best known for the seven feature films that bear her name as director – the out-of-wedlock pregnancy drama Not Wanted (1949), whic...
Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000) MaoHui Deng October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Edward Yang’s 2000 film Yi Yi won him a dizzying array of accolades from multiple film festivals and film associations, including the Best Director Aw...
A Man Under Investigation: The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, 1953) Joanna Di Mattia October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Harry Graham …” the adoption agent, Mr Jordan (Edmund Gwenn), contemplates, once the man in question (Edmond O’Brien) and his wife, Eve (Joan Fontain...
Moontide (Archie Mayo & Fritz Lang, 1942) Martyn Bamber October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Emerging from a troubled production history, Moontide seems overlooked in the annals of film history in general, and the story of 20th Century-Fox in ...
The Twilight Zone: “The Masks” (Ida Lupino, 1964) Ben Kooyman October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Credit for the genius of the original series of The Twilight Zone is routinely attributed to its droll, visionary chain-smoking architect Rod Serling ...
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev, 1971) Darragh O’Donoghue October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Cold War-era WR: misterije organizma (WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dušan Makavejev, 1971) sets West against East with two opening sequences. In the ...
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: The Terrorizers (Edward Yang, 1986) James Waters October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Two couples wake up, shamble through their respective apartments. A photographer (Ma Shao-chun) pricks up his ears at the sounds of a stake-out. Each ...
Australia Daze (Pat Fiske, 1988): Questioning Nationhood John Hughes October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Centenaries are strange institutions often with complex purposes (sometimes) wonderfully simple minded.” – C. J. Clarke “This 80-minute comedy – ...
Tom Zubrycki’s Amongst Equals (1986-1991): A Perennial Work in Progress John Hughes October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Amongst Equals has never been released, and while several iterations found their way to the screen in the early 1990s, the film has yet to be complete...
The Mercenary (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) Darragh O’Donoghue June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Mercenary is the most loveable of all spaghetti westerns. ‘Loveable’ is probably not an appropriate adjective for a subgenre that isolated, decont...
Comedy and the Castratrice: Věra Chytilová’s Traps (1998) Alexandra Heller-Nicholas June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rape-revenge films directed by women are a rarity, and rape-revenge comedies even rarer; somehow, connecting the two, we find queen of the Czech avant...
Destiny (Fritz Lang, 1921) Daniel Lammin June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film For anyone familiar with German director Fritz Lang through his most iconic works, Metropolis (1927) or M (1931), his 1921 film Der müde Tod (Destiny)...
Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini, 1969): The Best of the Bad Adam Powell June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Lee Van Cleef passed away at the end of the 1980s, and his gravestone at the burial plot in the Hollywood Hills cemetery reads “Best of the Bad”. This...
Three Bullets for Three Dead Men: Sergio Sollima’s The Big Gundown (1966) José Sarmiento-Hinojosa June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film When Jonathan Corbett (Lee Van Cleef), in a famous scene from La resa dei conti (The Big Gundown, Sergio Sollima, 1966), places three bullets on a log...
Something Different (Věra Chytilová, 1963) Gwendolyn Audrey Foster June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Though she is best known in the West for her widely celebrated anarchic experimental feminist classic Sedmikrásky (Daisies, 1966), Věra Chytilová has ...
Obsession and Madness in The Hands of Orlac Wheeler Winston Dixon June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Orlacs Hände (The Hands of Orlac), directed by Robert Wiene in 1924 from the eponymous 1920 novel by French author Maurice Renard, has been re-adapted...
Attendance Is Obligatory: A Bagful of Fleas (Věra Chytilová, 1962) Bedatri D. Choudhury June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Luce Irigaray argues that “any theory of the subject has always been appropriated by the ‘masculine’.” She is largely cynical of a feminist, or even f...
Asphalt (Joe May, 1929) Shari Kizirian June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Light on plot and heavy in atmosphere, Asphalt (Joe May, 1929) was one of the last silent films to come out of Ufa, and the German mega-studio seems t...
Navajo Joe (Sergio Corbucci, 1966) Ben Kooyman June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Among his many claims to fame, Marlon Brando was noteworthy as a supporter of Native American heritage and civil rights, famously sending activist Sac...
Fruit of Paradise (Věra Chytilová, 1969) Stefan Solomon June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Following on from what is by far her best-known film, Sedmikrásky (Daisies, 1966), Věra Chytilová embarked on a new project, the production of which w...
The Great Silence (Sergio Corbucci, 1968) Brad Weismann June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Darryl F. Zanuck hated it. After the masterful American producer screened the relentlessly downbeat, anti-capitalist spaghetti Western Il grande silen...
Prefab Story (Věra Chytilová, 1979): Farcical Times at a Prague High-rise Cerise Howard June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film A common misconception in the West is that Věra Chytilová directed only a few significant, narratively and aesthetically adventurous films, and all in...
The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924) Tope Ogundare June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film The porter of the Atlantic Hotel is not a rich man, nor is he one of any cashable power or privilege. But when he dons his oddly warlike uniform, he i...
Death Rides a Horse (Giulio Petroni, 1967) Danica van de Velde June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Met with an overwhelming number of lukewarm reviews upon its original cinematic release, and consistently relegated to little more than a footnote in ...
“Half Sick of Shadows”: Voyeurism and Psychosis in Warning Shadows David Melville June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Often,” says Tieck in William Lovell, “the world, its people, and its contingencies flicker before my eyes like flimsy shadows; often I appear to my...
Diary of a Chambermaid Victoria Loy March 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Diary of a Chambermaid/Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre (France 1964 98 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: SPEVA Films/Cine-Alliance/Film Son...
Les Amants Patrick Garson March 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Les Amants (1958 France 90 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Nouvelles Éditions de Films Prod: Irénée Leriche Dir: Louis Malle Scr: Louis Malle, Lou...
La Baie des Anges Lindsay Henderson March 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Baie des Anges (1963 France 85 minutes) Source: CAC/NLA Prod Co: Sud-Pacifique Films Prod: Paul-Edmond Decharme Dir, Scr: Jacques Demy Ph: J...
Eva (Joseph Losey, 1962) Eloise Ross March 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film “And the man and the woman were naked together, and were unashamed.” These words are spoken in voiceover as the camera slowly pans across Venetian w...
Shadows Darragh O’Donoghue March 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959) is full of shadows, but the murkiest shadow cast is that of race. Famously, its precursor was an improvisation session...