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David Owen Russell’s I ♥ Huckabees
An analysis of the film's engagement with philosophical discourse in a comedic mode.
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Montreal, 2004, the Film Year in Review
A year of film viewing in Montreal.
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Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House Cinema
Review of Barbara Wilinsky's book on the cultural history of the arthouse film viewing.
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Rodney Evans’s Brother to Brother; or, “James Baldwin is Dead”
There are works that are less important for what they are than for what they inspire us to think about, and one such work is Rodney Evans’s “Brother to Brother”
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What I Remember of the Films I’ve Seen
Films come and come; and do so quickly enough that it’s hard to know if any of them are of much importance—before a decent, public conversation can occur, they’re gone. Films reviewed include: Hero, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, Vanity Fair, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Motorcycle Diaries, Kilometer Zero, Stage Beauty, Kinsey, Alexander.
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Around the Films of Bill Morrison
Recent films of New York filmmaker Bill Morrison have been concerned with the particular struggle between film and its material medium. There is a conflict between the image and matter which ruins the narrative of the original, twisted by the gnawing power of time, but which at the same time produces a paradoxical tale of ruins, born out of this double resistance of the filmic image and its material.
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The Cinematic Poetry of Bill Morrison
This essay is a response to having seen a two programme retrospective of Bill Morrison’s work on April 28 and April 29, 2004 at La Cinémathèque Québécoise.
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Plus belle que la beauté est la ruine de la beauté
The fact that Decasia (USA, Bill Morrison, 2002) has had many screenings at an equal amount of very diverse feature and documentary film festivals is testament to its slippery nature.
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This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film
One of the most impressive publishing endeavors in the area of film scholarship in recent years is the mammoth nine-year undertaking which resulted in this 720 page tome, This Film is Dangerous: A Celebration of Nitrate Film.
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“Woman, Thou Art Loosed” and “Moolaade”
A Bleak Heroism of Images: “Woman, Thou Art Loosed” by Michael Schultz and “Moolaade” by Ousmane Sembene.
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The Saddest Music in the World
Review of Maddin's latest film within the broader context of recent Canadian cinema and its reception in the United States.
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Tales From the Atelier Tovar
A review of Guy Maddin's irreverent collection of writings.
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Deathdream: The Return of 1970s Horror
I was fortunate to catch this low budget chiller at a late night screening at Montreal’s Cinema du Parc theatre on April 23, 2004. It had been a long time since I had seen this film, but for reasons soon apparent, it has remained finely etched in my memory.
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Fassbinder: The Life and Work of a Provocative Genius
Fassbinder gets an exhaustive treatment in the recent book by Christian Braad Thomsen, and a likewise turn here by Louis Goyette.
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This Land is Your Land: Dogville. Reason and Redemption, Rage and Retribution
An in-depth analysis at the social and ideological parameters offered by Lars von Trier's fascinating piece of Brechtian cinema.
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