Issue 43
A Black Pearl of the Deep: Juraj Herz’s The Cremator
An insightful discussion of one of the great films of the Czechoslovak New Wave. A work greatly admired by the Quay brothers, The Cremator’s recent
Welcome to issue 43 of our journal!
In a rare 1967 monograph, now long out of print, the Italian director Valerio Zurlini published a poetic account of an evening in the company
Hitchcock and Hume Revisited: Fear, Confusion and Stage Fright
“This essay is a return to the scene of the crime.” The author of Hitchcock and 20th Century Cinema re-evaluates his low opinion of Stage
A Man Escaped
Noel Vera offers a detailed analysis of the spiritual and the material in Diary of a Country Priest
Robert Bresson and Flannery O’Connor: Unlikely Approaches Toward Grace
An insightful comparison of the work of two of the great artists of the 20th Century
Going Beyond Cézanne: The Development of Robert Bresson’s Film Style in Response to the Painting of Paul Cézanne
“Robert Bresson began as a painter and, while he would rarely practice the art, it was a guiding force in the development of his unique
Dreams of Postmodernism and Thoughts of Mortality: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective of Blade Runner
Ridley Scott’s film reaches its first milestone. David Ryan charts its critical history, the various interpretations of its thematics and director’s revisions of the film.
The Low-Key Jester: An Interview with Andrew Bujalski
One of the best US Independent filmmakers to emerge in recent years, the director of the critically acclaimed Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation discusses
Sins of Omission: A Dissenting View of Robert Bresson
At the risk of sounding like the devil, probably, to Bresson’s admirers, Harper expresses some personal doubts about the stature of Bresson’s cinema
Fracturing the Marble Façade: Visceral Excavation in Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble
A detailed analysis of the historical and ideological currents at work behind a classic of Polish cinema