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Tag Archives: TSPDT
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman Jeanne Dielman is a long film. It is a slow film. It is long and slow because the film — unlike everything else in the titular character’s life … Continue reading
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Tagged 1080 Bruxelles, 23 quai du Commerce, Chantal Akerman, feminism, film, France, French films, Jeanne Dielman, movies, TSPDT
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Close-Up
Close-Up (1990) dir. Abbas Kiarostami Film buff Hossain Sabzian pretends to be famous Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, and tells a family he intends to make a documentary about them. They believe him at first, but soon the truth is uncovered. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Close-Up, film, Hossain Sabzian, Iran, Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, movies, Nema-ye Nazdik, theosis, TSPDT
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A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman Under the Influence (1974) dir. John Cassevetes Gena Rowlands plays Mabel, an all-American housewife who suffers from mental illness. She’s functional, and doesn’t seem dangerous. The only real problem is that other people find her very annoying. Usually characters … Continue reading
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Tagged A Woman Under the Influence, film, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, mental illness, movies, TSPDT
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Shoot the Piano Player
Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960) dir. François Truffaut Shoot the Piano Player was Truffaut’s second feature film, after The 400 Blows. Godard’s Breathless, which Truffaut wrote an initial treatment for, was released the same year. The two helped … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, François Truffaut, France, French New Wave, movies, Shoot the Piano Player, Tirez sur le pianiste, TSPDT
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Cléo de 5 à 7
Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961) dir. Agnès Varda Varda’s Cléo is part of the ‘Left Bank’ of the French New Wave. The Left Bank, including Alain Resnais (Hiroshima mon amour, Last Year at Marienbad) and Chris Marker (La Jetée) was … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnès Varda, cinema, Cléo de 5 à 7, Corinne Marchand, film, French New Wave, Left Bank, movies, TSPDT
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Wavelength
Wavelength (1967) dir. Michael Snow Wavelength is the vanguard of “structural film” – a movement in the mid-20th Century of simplified filmmaking. Director Michael Snow uses the zoom, the iris, diegetic sound and other techniques, but keeps the camera pointed … Continue reading
Daisies
Daisies – Sedmikrásky (1966) dir. Věra Chytilová Sedmikrásky (or Daisies) is the iconic feminist, absurd film from the Czechoslovak New Wave. Director Věra Chytilová comes from the grand tradition of Dada — she doesn’t so much break from traditional film convention as she … Continue reading
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Tagged absurdism, communism, Czechoslovak New Wave, Czechoslovakia, Dada, Daisies, feminism, film, movies, Prague Spring, Sedmikrásky, TSPDT, Věra Chytilová
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Shoah
Shoah (1985) dir. Claude Lanzmann The 9 1/2 hour film Shoah consists of eyewitness testimony of those who participated in and were the victims of the slaughter of 6 million European Jews by the Nazi regime. Claude Lanzmann interviews survivors, … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Lanzmann, documentary, film, genocide, Germany, holo, holocaust, Judaism, movies, Nazis, Poland, Shoah, TSPDT, World War II
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The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) dir. Ernst Lubitsch The formula is pure Hollywood. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, boy and girl are separated by comic misunderstanding, and the audience waits for the two to reconcile. … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, film, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, movies, romance, The Shop Around the Corner, TSPDT
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Scary Vampires
Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer Remember when vampires used to be scary? Vampires have been re-invented so many, many times over that having a non-traditional vampire has become its own trope. As TV Tropes points out, there’s even a … Continue reading
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Tagged Carmilla, Count Dracula, Dracula, horror, movies, Sheridan Le Fanu, TSPDT, vampires, Vampyr
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