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Articles TIFF 2017: Beyond the Unpleasure Principle
…The Nothing Factory, Ben Russell’s Good Luck observes disempowered labourers from a privileged perspective, but where Pinho’s film is aridly intellectual, Russell’s is sensual to a fault. In lieu of a Marxist analysis of the effects of neoliberalism on the working class, this ethnographic diptych comparing Serbian copper miners with…
September 30th, 2017
Articles Nunsploitation: The Forgotten Cycle
…Black Narcissus (1947) and Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971). Also, and more crucially, at first glance the uninitiated and unprepared viewer could be distanced by the range of often lurid and alarming visual compositions and seemingly erratic mise en scene of the average nunsploitation film. The films are thought of…
August 18th, 2014
Articles Thinking About Cinema With Cinema
…Andrei Tarkovsky, Alexandr Sokurov, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Theo Angelopoulos, who all favor the psychological intensity of the long take when it comes to intensifying the experiential. For example, what comes to mind when we think of Hitchcock, Resnais, Godard, Eisenstein, Vertov, Makavejev, Kubrick, Roeg and other directors that rely heavily…
July 31st, 2002
Articles A Portrait of an Artist as a Handsome, Smart, Tough Black Dude: Laurence Fishburne in School Daze, Bad Company, Othello, The Matrix, Armored and other films
…head and tattoos, and Kenneth Branagh is Iago, in Oliver Parker’s 1995 film Othello. I saw filmed productions of Lawrence Olivier as Othello and Anthony Hopkins as Othello, and, without question, I prefer Fishburne: he is man enough, eloquent enough, warrior enough, sexy enough, to make me believe that he…
May 15th, 2015
Articles Forevermore: Longevity at Fantasia 2010
…their Christian god. In Ken Russell’s The Devils, also screened at this year’s festival (in the presence of the director), women of Christ are tortured under the mantra “confess!”, their souls to be saved if their communion with the devil is admitted to. In Black Death the recurring phrase is…
April 30th, 2011
Articles Birth of a Nation: Viewed Today
…C. Rollins, 9-19. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1983.]] These were that: • The antebellum (pre-war) South was a golden age of agrarian feudal joy: wealthy autocratic landowners and happy obedient slaves • There was perfect harmony between “colors” as long as the hierarchy was kept; and that the…
February 29th, 2004
Articles The Road, Red and White (and Blue): Canadian Identity in Bruce McDonald’s Road Trilogy
…the scene in which Russell (Don McKellar) discusses with Ramona his wanting to be a serial killer uses dark humour to articulate the state of the cinematic medium in Canada. Russell confesses to Ramona that he needs a profession so he has decided to become a serial killer. He then…
May 31st, 2017
Articles Play it Again: Tequila Sunrise
…(Jo Ann Vallenari), Kurt Russell (Det. Lt. Nicholas ‘Nick’ Frescia), Raul Julia (Carlos / Comandante Xavier Escalante), J.T. Walsh (DEA Agent Hal Maguire), Gabriel Damon (Cody McKussic), Arliss Howard (Gregg Lindroff), Arye Gross (Andy Leonard), Daniel Zacapa (Arturo, Bartender at Vallenari’s (as Garret Pearson), Eric Thiele (Vittorio Vallenari) Tom Nolan…
March 31st, 2008
Articles Seeing Horror, Imagining the Horrible
…murderous — at worst” (Russell-Watts 72). The director succinctly sums up the role of men in her oeuvre: There is no masculine psychology in my cinema. They contain only what women feel and desire. Therefore, men must not try to recognize themselves in my male characters. However, the films can…
September 30th, 2015
Articles The Reclamation of Culture: Smoke Signals and Skins by Chris Eyre
…to settlement life, with Russell Means as Chingachgook, Eric Schweig as Uncas, Madeleine Stowe as Cora, and Jodhi May as Alice. Newsweek’s David Ansen, reviewing Mann’s Last of the Mohicans, says Cooper’s novel is “where the Native Americans are either sentimental noble savages or bloodthirsty demons,” so leaving some of…
May 31st, 2022
Articles Difficult People, Divergent Values: Up in the Air, Bobby, Constellation, The Edge of Love, The Greatest, Greenberg, The Messenger, and Bella
…Hotel, and about Robert Kennedy’s 1968 campaign for president, and the people whose lives he touched, and his assassination. Bobby Kennedy’s assassination followed that of other significant political men—including his brother John and Martin Luther King Jr.—in a decade of social turmoil when people needed—and knew they needed, a more…
July 31st, 2010
Articles The British New Wave and Its Sources
…social realist films of Ken Loach which came a few years later and where upward mobility is not a major issue. The protagonists of Cathy Come Home (1966) and Kes (1970) are too busy dealing with poverty to worry about affluence or whether there is room for them at the…
June 30th, 2011
Articles Self as Individual Consciousness, And Embodiment of Nation
…stars the handsome, lordly Ken Watanabe and Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise’s Yankee soldier is haunted by his participation in the massacre of Native Americans, and we see his memories of the killing of women and children. There is no Native American character of significance in the film; and one of…
May 31st, 2004
Articles Mockumentary in the Hands of Peter Watkins
…filmmakers of the time (Ken Russell, Kevin Brownlow, John Schlesinger), especially when it came to the portrayal of war and conflict (Ibid., 229). However, Watkins stood out because he refused to compromise his vision and what he thought to be his ethical working style for the studio heads. He would…
May 31st, 2023
Articles The 2006 Tribeca Film Festival
…rousing, catchy rock songs. Ken Russell makes a memorable appearance as one of the talking heads, presenting an aborted film inspired by the brothers called “Two Way Romeo,” in which the conjoined twins grow a malevolent third head. Although the fake-doc concept seems to fall away at a certain point,…
September 30th, 2006
Articles Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997): A Different Kind of Bug Movie
…‘Sputnik anxiety’ reifying Bertrand Russell’s concept of Mutually Assured Atomic Destruction (MAAD). In fact, the figurative Asian ‘body-and-face’ which represents cultural ‘otherness’ is presented in the inhuman forms of the insect bodies; moreover, their human absence reinforces the bug’s inhuman presence, compounding the fear of the cultural other. The above…
May 31st, 2021
Articles Turning the Western on its head: Simple subversion in Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence (1968)
…interests of the public. Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) is one of the few films that comes close to sharing a similar, inevitably bleak conclusion where the good characters are powerless against the unstoppable, evil establishment. However, what makes Corbucci’s film more subversive than The Devils, and more so than…
November 30th, 2011
Articles Fant-Asia 1998: The Year of the Torture, Part 1
…Coscarelli (Phantasm 4) and Russell Mulcahy (Talos the Mummy) – made themselves readily available to both media and fans. In most cases the directors were genuinely eager to hang around the Imperial Theatre before and after screenings and join the Fant-Asia crowd to the nearest watering hole after the last…
October 16th, 1998
Articles ICONOGRAPHY (Part 1): Ideas, Images, and Individuals in Film, Books, and Life; featuring Chronicles of Narnia, Far Side of the Moon, Jarhead, and more
…played by blonde Patsy Kensit), and, though he seems not to have as much love for his wife as he imagined he would—he seems to have more in common with a family acquaintance, Matty Crompton (Kristin Scott Thomas), who understands his study of nature and insects and engages him in…
February 28th, 2006
Articles “Once upon a time… The Western. A New Frontier in Art and Film”
…Red Star, Brian Jungens, Kent Monkman, Alan Michelson, Fritz Scholder, Adrian Stimson (aka Little Brown Boy Heavy Shield), Gail Tremblay and several unidentified Native American painters are interspersed according to theme or medium. In the catalogue the re-appropriation and artistic turn-a-round of Western imagery by Native American artists is covered…
January 14th, 2018