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Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. In September 1980, American film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert appeared on an episode of their show Sneak Previews, where they speculated as to the cause of the profusion of what would eventually be known as the slasher film in the last third of […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. Philippe Grandrieux’s Unrest forms the third part of a de facto triptych of films with White Epilepsy (2012) and Meurtrière (2015), occasionally called the ‘anxiety’ trio. While the film is part of a sequence, it is not by necessity a ‘conclusion,’ since to view the triptych chronologically as […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. A shot from the opening of Claire Denis’ High Life, showing a half dozen bodies floating in space, in its way provides a thesis for the entire film: the image is, perhaps, allegorical for what the films sees as a hopeless conflict between dwindling […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto, clicca QUI per la versione italiana. Wavelengths Features: A Liminal Space. Andrea Bussmann’s Fausto is a film furnace, set in and around an isolated beach on the Oaxaca coast of Mexico, and described by the director as a “liminal space between good and evil,” with rocks that heal at one end and […]
Questo articolo è stato tradotto in italiano. Clicca QUI per la versione tradotta. Peter Strickland’s In Fabric views commercial consumption as a nexus point for the natural and supernatural, distilling horror and satire out of the desire for beauty, status, and happiness through material means. Taking a department store and a bank as its backdrop, […]