Category: 1960s
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In this genre-shifting thriller, a manhunt for a dangerous extortionist leads the audience through the most divided parts of Japan in Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 picture. There’s a house up on a hill. Its minimalist, with a panoramic view of the city that lies below. At the bottom of the hill lies a studio apartment that…
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As I was watching La Jetée (1962), I stumbled across an interesting trend; there seemed to be a lot of fetishization of the female character. The film’s formatting seems to mandate this, as instead of using live footage, the film is almost entirely shot with still photos, and this allows the viewer to hyper fixate…
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In this repulsing yet alluring look at the decay of the German nobility at the dawn of Nazism, a patriarch’s influence wanes as his power-hungry descendants eat each other for the final scraps. Every now and then, there’s a film that comes along that both intrigues and repulses you. It can be hard to form…
BEYOND THE FRAME 