“The ragged end of nowhere”: Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) Lauren Carroll Harris June 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film Notorious (1946) is widely known as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most lucid and pure works, emblematic of the auteur’s take on suspense and love, and his simplified, stylised cinematic storytelling. Its synopsis i...
Melodramatic Postwar Confessions: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini’s La Paura (1954) Christopher Weedman June 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Paura (Fear, 1954) is the final and arguably most underrated film collaboration between Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini. Before their seven-year marriage from 1950-57, the couple made headlines after t...
A Star’s New Stage: Elena and Her Men (Elena et les Hommes) Matthew Sorrento June 2015 CTEQ Annotations on Film It’s a moment of beauty disrupted by thundering, militaristic noise: Elena (Ingrid Bergman), a late-19th-century Polish princess, sits at a piano while her lover, a composer, tries to drown out the festive soun...
Three Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman: The Criterion Edition of Stromboli, Europe ’51 and Journey to Italy Greg Gerke December 2013 Feature Articles How did Italian cinema manage to become so big when from Rossellini to Visconti and from Antonioni to Fellini, no one recorded sound with images? A simple answer: the language of Ovid and Virgil, Dante and Le...
Stromboli John Flaus July 2000 CTEQ Annotations on Film, John Flaus Dossier Stromboli (1949 Italy 81 mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Berit Film for RKO Prod: Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman Dir: Rossellini Scr: Rossellini, Art Cohn, Sergio Amidei, Gian Paolo Callegari, Renzo Cesan...
