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Author Frederick Blichert

Frederick Blichert

Frederick Blichert is a Vancouver-based writer. His research interests include sequels and seriality, transmedia storytelling, and genre studies. He is currently completing a book on Joss Whedon’s 2005 film Serenity for Wallflower Press’ Cultographies series.

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Coloured Judgement: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin (2015)

Frederick Blichert
September 2016
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 80
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first film in eight years was also his first foray into the wuxia genre. With The Assassin, he joins other top-tier auteurs like John Woo, Wong Kar Wai, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, and Jia...
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Resisting Authority in Masaki Kobayashi’s Samurai Rebellion (1967)

Frederick Blichert
June 2016
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 79
In a pivotal scene from Masaki Kobayashi’s classic jidai-geki, the ageing samurai Isaburo Sasahara stands in his empty home, having just stripped it of all of its contents. Played by Toshiro Mifune, the...
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Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)

Frederick Blichert
March 2016
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 78
What I don’t like is the persistent denial by blubbering sentimentalists of man’s basic nature. Away with those who would sterilize life, or, as they call it, ‘spiritualize’ life. - Erich von...

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