I would love to see this film: Resisting Paradise (2003) by Barbara Hammer. A still: . A snippet of description: Resisting Paradise is a 16mm experimental documentary that explores the relationship between art and politics through a juxtaposition of the work of French painters Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard with interviews with French WWII resistance […]
A couple of nights ago I watched Alfred Hitchcock’s clever and satisfyingly grippping Shadow of a Doubt – what a great film! At the risk of sounding like a fogy, I’ll say it anyway: They don’t make ’em like that anymore. (Blue Velvet was just a happy aberration!) There’s an interesting 4-page analysis/ synopsis that […]
I watched Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona recently. It was enjoyable and fun to watch – to a point. It had all the classic hallmarks of a Woody Allen story, as it revolved around the American (and now also European) upper-middle-class set – which made it watchable, but also made it annoying. The acting was […]