Unconscious London Strata is one of Stan Brakhage's gloriously abstract studies of light and color, with virtually no grounding in concr...
Showing posts with label '1990s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label '1990s. Show all posts
Wild Reeds
In Wild Reeds, director André Téchiné dramatizes the moment right on the cusp between adolescence and adulthood, right at the moment when te...
The Eye of Vichy
Claude Chabrol's The Eye of Vichy is a fascinating documentary that collages together newsreel footage and propaganda films from the Vic...
Betty
Claude Chabrol's Betty is a devastating, moving, extraordinarily acted portrait of a lost soul whose drinking and sexual promiscuity iso...
Romance
"Love between men and women is not possible." So says Marie (Caroline Ducey) towards the end of Catherine Breillat's ironicall...
Madame Bovary
Claude Chabrol is so thoroughly associated with the genre of the thriller that it's always a surprise when he ventures outside its confi...
Jungle Fever
Considering Spike Lee's career-long examination of various American attitudes about race and culture, it's not surprising that at so...
The Castle
The Castle was one of the novels Franz Kafka left unpublished upon his death, the unsettling story of a land surveyor who repeatedly and fru...