Welcome to the wonderful world of my brain. the posts consists of thoughts and ideas I couldn’t shake unless I spewed them onto this digital notebook. Do they all make sense? Unlikely. But if watching and studying movies all my life has taught me anything, it’s that cinema is about ideas. They’re all up there on the screen for us to see.
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Director Akira Kurosawa’s towering landmark, Seven Samurai, is a universally praised, timeless jewel of world cinema, but it also represents a personal landmark on my journey into cinephilia. This was decades ago (*shudder*) in the halcyon days of Netflix rentals, when a red envelope containing Seven Samurai arrived on my doorstep alongside Jean Renoir’s The Grand Illusion and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The…
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If film as an artistic medium is measurable by its effectiveness at visually expressing thoughts, concepts, emotions, and/or ideas, then you’d be hard-pressed to find a better purveyor of the form than Robert Bresson. His career as a filmmaker spanned almost fifty years and yet he only directed 13 feature films, garnering praise and renown…
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“I’d like to be a caretaker. To look after houses. Look after guard-dogs. There are so many big houses…so many rooms…” Emptiness, in all its forms, is ever present in Agnes Varda’s 1985 road *document, VAGABOND. The sentiment above is expressed by Mona, a young vagrant girl traveling the French countryside, during one of a…
Partially Obstructed Cinema 