Anderson, Lindsay Luke Aspell December 2017 Great Directors b. 17 April 1923, Bangalore, India. d. 30 August 1994, Angoulême, Charente, France. “If you enjoy L’Eternel Retour, you may enjoy also King Kong, but not Black Narcissus. If you enjoy Black Narcissus you ca...
History Lessons (Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1972) Luke Aspell September 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film In History Lessons (Geschichtsunterricht), a young man drives in modern Rome, and interviews four ancient Romans – a banker, a peasant, a jurist and a writer – about the career of Julius Caesar. These exchanges...
The Freshman (Sam Taylor and Fred Newmeyer, 1925) Luke Aspell March 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film In preparation for his arrival at Tate University, Harold Lamb (Harold Lloyd) has seen “The College Hero” six times, carefully rehearsing the jig and catchphrase of its protagonist. From this and other sources,...
The Wild Party (Dorothy Arzner, 1929) Luke Aspell February 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Wild Party was the first talkie for both star Clara Bow and director Dorothy Arzner, and is noted in the technical history of the early sound period for its introduction of the boom microphone. It is Arzner...
Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922) Luke Aspell March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film The morning routine of the Villa Amarosa has the vagueness of habit. The tenants come together slowly, in frames mostly weighted towards their rightward thirds, taken from high or low angles, in natural light. ...
Cantata (Miklós Jancsó, 1963) Luke Aspell September 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film When Ambrus (Zoltán Latinovits) drives to his father's farm in the last third of Cantata, viewers familiar with Miklós Jancsó's work will recognise the puszta, the Hungarian grass plain on which his best-known ...
Mother (Mikio Naruse, 1952) Luke Aspell June 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film On its original release, Mother was a critical success; it came seventh in Kinema Jumpo's annual poll for 1952 (1), and was one of the few Mikio Naruse films seen outside Japan in his lifetime. As his work has ...