Not so dirty realism: Altman glosses Carver in Short Cuts Julian Murphy March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on FilmSomebody wins the lottery. The same day, that person’s sister gets killed by a brick falling off a building in Seattle. Those are both the same thing. The lottery was won both ways. The odds of either happening...
Three Doors into the Chamber of Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata Julian Murphy June 2015 CTEQ Annotations on FilmThe edifice of Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre is of such vast scope and is riddled with such ramifying thematic veins that it is almost impossible to treat any individual work in isolation. If forced to choose, Autumn...
Troubling the Boundary Between Original and Re-enactment: The Stolen Man (El Hombre Robado) Julian Murphy April 2015 CTEQ Annotations on FilmThe canon shouldn’t be put behind glass in a museum. I’m interested in the idea of opening up canonical figures – we should be dealing with them as our contemporaries. (1) - Matías Piñeiro The first of five f...
