Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001 by Stuart Klawans Julien Lapointe July 2002 Book Reviews (Nation Books/Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002) Tension marks the allure of superior criticism – ideally, there should be a conflict between text and subtext, between what we're lead to think in the opening, and ...
La cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995) Julien Lapointe April 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Spoiler warning: This review reveals the film's ending, so I urge readers to put it aside till after seeing the film. Released in 1995, Claude Chabrol's forty-ninth feature, La cérémonie, was greeted with ec...
