For a species that has often expressed our fear of the end of the world, we do tend to have a fondness for dystopian stories. There’s something about works of speculative fiction that take place in the future in which we are presented with alternative realities that often capture our attention, even when we may…
Tag: films
Typist Artist Pirate King (2022)
Upon her death just over a decade ago, no one other than her family and friends (or what few she had left) knew the name Audrey Amiss, since despite being a gifted artist and someone who strove to make an impression, she lived most of her life in obscurity, oscillating between her squalid flat in…
Mauvais Sang (1986)
An enigmatic young man runs down the street – we can’t tell if he’s overcome with joy or panic, and the use of David Bowie’s “Modern Love” doesn’t make his state of mind any more clear, and only creates more dissonance between the tone and what is being asserted in this particular moment. Yet, despite…
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point (2024)
The holiday season is a challenging time for everyone, albeit for very different reasons – some find it overly commercial, whereas others feel burdened by the stress of planning festivities that are very rarely worth the time and effort, and which just prove to reiterate the fact that this period is reserved for capitalistic gain…
A Day in the Country (1946)
After having quite a prolific career in both Europe and the United States, and having made films quite late into his life, it’s tough to imagine that Jean Renoir, one of cinema’s finest directors, had many instances of projects that didn’t manifest as he intended them to, most of his work being well-crafted and very…
The Postmodern Pelican 