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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 […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. Colour Out of Space is a cross-pollination of the sensibilities of its director, the South African Richard Stanley, and those of American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. For the last thirty years, Stanley’s has come to be known as a distinctly tactile fiction -often […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. “To ye, to beauty.” The Lighthouse is at once a romance of the sea and a dissection of romance of the sea. Its characters’ view of the world has been shaped not solely by the filmmakers’ understanding of nineteenth-century literary tropes, but also […]