Category: Western European
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As part of Roger Durling’s Vital Cinema series at the SBIFF Riviera Theater, the 4K restoration displays all of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Diva (1982) in its postpunk glory, even if the cinema du look is in some ways a product of its time. Diva (1982) begins place at an opera house. In the heart of Paris,…
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Although this silent horror film from Denmark posts an interesting connection between the past and present, the lackluster pacing and strange academic approach hinders the haunting potential. When it comes to silent films, there’s nothing better than a silent horror film. Classics such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and Broken Blossoms (1919) don’t…
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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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As I was watching “The Lady Vanishes,” I was struck by how integral the role of thetrain is with how it regards to the female perspective. There are numerous times throughout the film where the train itself plays as a sort of extension into Iris’s mindset, especially when people are trying to gaslight her into…
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