I first encountered Suspiria (1977) as a freshman at IU, when one of my floormates invited everyone to watch it with him in the lounge. I had mostly avoided scary movies when I was younger but I decided to try this one. Everything about it blew me away, but I was especially drawn to the… Read more »
Guest post by Gerry Lanosga. “FBI Finds Nixon Aides Sabotaged Democrats,” read a headline in The Washington Post 50 years ago this coming Monday. Running across the top of the front page in two decks, it was set in extra-large font befitting the importance of the news. The following year, the story was one of… Read more »
The question of realism in narrative cinema is an interesting and complex one. When a group of Italian filmmakers in the 1940s, led by Roberto Rossellini but also composed of quite different figures such as Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, began to produce works that have come to comprise the Italian Neorealist canon, their… Read more »
Lynne Sachs’ film output is prolific and varied, encompassing documentaries, essay films, non-narrative experiments, and installations. Like many feminist filmmakers, a theme running through her work is the insistence that the personal is important. Whether one’s own body, private moments in a doctor’s office, or one’s sense of family and home, our personal lives are… Read more »
Rest in peace to the filmmaker who taught us how to see (and how to hear), who opened our eyes with his ferocious reconstruction of film form and with the emotional intensity of his images. Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema remains, above all, an attempt to restructure perception. His deeply sensual films seek to retrain our eyes… Read more »
One of the many things that is fascinating to me about cinema is what happens when artists tell the same story in different ways. I love how they make bold choices when adapting a work of art which causes it to feel original and fresh, while at the same time honoring the qualities which made… Read more »