Jason Statham – The Transporter (Cory Yuen, 2002) – First Section
Posted: July 29, 2009 Filed under: Action, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words | Tags: Action, Choreography, Cory Yuen, Faces, Film Studies, Jason Statham, Martial Arts, The Transporter, Words 1 Comment »Width and angle here provide the ideal opportunity to acknowledge the film’s old-fashioned fascination with outline, cut and choreography.
Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg & Luigi Pistilli – Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave/Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, 1972)
Posted: July 27, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Giallo, Italian Cinema, Linking Spaces | Tags: Anita Strindberg, Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Giallo, Luigi Pistilli, Sergio Martino, Words Leave a comment »
A seemingly obvious arc from disillusionment to death becomes suitably complicated by a mannered insistence on direction, expression and viewpoint.
Around the World in 80 (plus) Blogs
Posted: July 24, 2009 Filed under: Film, Film Blogs, Film Studies, Linking Spaces | Tags: Film Blogs, Harry Tuttle, Screenville Leave a comment »Harry Tuttle at Screenville is collating links to film blogs from all around the world.
Help him out? More here … http://screenville.blogspot.com/
Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1942) versus E tu vivrai nel terrore – L’aldilà/The Beyond (lucio Fulci, 1981)
Posted: July 23, 2009 Filed under: British Cinema, European Cinema, Film Studies, Finding Words, Italian Cinema, Linking Spaces, Versus | Tags: Alberto Cavalcanti, British Cinema, E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà, European Cinema, Film Studies, Horror, Italian Cinema, Lucio Fulci, The Beyond, Versus, Went the Day Well?, Words, World War II Leave a comment »The fight against the violation of place and time occurs within spaces also facing the prospect of impossibility becoming commonplace.
Edwige Fenech – Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave/Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Sergio Martino, 1972)
Posted: July 22, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Giallo | Tags: Abacus, David Thomson, Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Giallo, Luigi Pistilli, pp. 82-83, Sergio Martino, The Whole Equation, Words Leave a comment »It starts with David Thomson and what he calls the ‘moons of becoming’, those ‘great faces in the movie dark’.
Cliff Richard – Serious Charge (Terence Young, 1959)
Posted: July 21, 2009 Filed under: British Cinema, Dancing, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words | Tags: 1959, BF Taylor, British Cinema, Cliff Richard, Dancing, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Serious Charge, Terence Young, Words Leave a comment »
Each frame here is charged with both innocence and a beguiling intent made all the more compelling by the stillness.
film studies
Rita Tushingham – A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961)
Posted: July 20, 2009 Filed under: British Cinema, British New Wave, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words | Tags: A Taste of Honey, BF Taylor, British Cinema, British New Wave, Faces, Film Studies, Murray Melvin, Rita Tushingham, Tony Richardson, Words 1 Comment »Charting the shift from desertion to independence, independence to isolation, isolation to friendship, and from friendship back to a desertion.
film studies
Sheila Keith – Frightmare (Pete Walker, 1974)
Posted: July 18, 2009 Filed under: British Cinema, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, PeteWalker | Tags: BF Taylor, British Cinema, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Frightmare, From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith, Pete Walker, Sheila Keith, Words 2 Comments »
Sheila Keith’s presence here ensures that Frightmare will always be capable of bearing both a critical and an interpretative weight.
film studies
Edwige Fenech – Nude per l’assassino/Strip Nude for Your Killer (Andrea Bianchi, 1975)
Posted: July 16, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Giallo | Tags: Andrea Bianchi, Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Faces, Giallo, Nino Castelnuovo, Nude per l'assassino/Strip Nude for Your Killer, Words Leave a comment »As certain film titles belie complexity so too do simple responses become complicated by the succession of image after image.
Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962)
Posted: July 16, 2009 Filed under: Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Hollywood | Tags: Candace Hilligoss, Carnival of Souls, Faces, Film Studies, Herk Harvey, Independent, Words Leave a comment »
As Mary staggers from the river her expression prefigures a shift from body horror to the horror of being nobody.
