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Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione in italiano. Philippe Grandrieux’s The Scream (2019) is a showcase of the human voice, portraying bodies engaged in a spectrum of vocal experience with the scream at one end and song at another. In its portrayal of the voice -both aurally and within a […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. “Often in this way, shameful secrets reveal themselves.” For many western audiences, The Beast (1975) is a gateway film of sorts to the oeuvre of Polish artist and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk. It was one of the earliest films by Borowczyk to appear in […]
Two feature films which made their North American premieres in the Wavelengths program at the Toronto International Film Festival, Oliver Laxe’s O Que Arde (‘Viendra le Feu,’ ‘Fire Will Come’) and Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela, offer the viewer variations on landscape, complicating the historical intentions of the pastoral in the former and the tableau vivant […]
The Giant is a distinctly American film that recalls many of the staples of impressionist gothic fiction from the early twentieth century. Naturally, the phrase ‘distinctly American’ has a multitude of meanings, and while the film -a feature debut written and directed by Virginia native David Raboy- ostensibly occupies the de facto genres of the […]
J.P. Valkeapää’s Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is, in the words of its director, a comedic exploration of the bond created by BDSM. That bond arguably is in itself a source of comedy for the viewer in that it signifies something that the viewer cannot entirely understand -the ‘bond’ representing not just solely an understanding between […]