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A wonderful essay on Chantal Ackerman’s first film Saute ma ville by film critic Adrian Martin.
A wonderful essay on Chantal Ackerman’s first film Saute ma ville by film critic Adrian Martin.
The film is like a poem of a dream, composed in movements, and alternating between scenes of blissful young lovers naked in bed, surreal and frightening images that serve as worrying metaphors for pregnancy, and documentary footage of people on the Rue Mouffetard. In 17 minutes the film covers the cycle of life — childhood, youth, old age, infirmity, death — but in not in any logical order, rather in the bewildering way that life moves or that we move through life.
Penny Folger examines Barbara Loden’s sad and beautiful film Wanda, an often-overlooked landmark in American cinema.
“The night is the time when the order of the day loses its grip, the time when spirits come out. Ana calls the Spirit again, repeating her name: ‘Soy Ana’, and we hear the sound of the train as if the Spirit has responded.” A beautiful essay by Magda Mariamidze
“Burnett’s cinematic poetry arises from the hundred small “sensory-motor disconnections” of every damn day, gaps and dislocations from which a sad but resilient emotion flows.”
Some thoughts on Female, a pre-code film starring Ruth Chatterton.