8 years ago
All posts by Forrest Cardamenis
On The Formal and Narrative Style of Nathan Silver
Across Nathan Silver’s three latest features—Exit Elena, Soft in the Head, and Uncertain Terms, exempting the just-premiered Stinking Heaven—one can immediately see a handful of formal and narrative similarities. Each opens with an ambiguous pre-title sequence...
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History of Film: “Persona”
Ingmar Bergman was one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of international art cinema, and his brand—seen as probing, introspective dramas that sought to explore human nature at its barest, even despite the fact that Bergman’s output was quite varied and often t...
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The Second Criterion: “The Double Life of Veronique”
When I wrote a capsule about The Double Life of Véronique, I compared the experience to the oft-quoted line, “talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” Against my better judgment, I’ve decided to push beyond that, and I maintain that the effect ...
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Challenging the Canon: “Blue Velvet”
If one wanted a definitive list of the greatest films of all time—or at least, a definitive list of what are perceived, at this moment in time to be the greatest films of all time—you could not do much better than the list on They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? T...
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