Growing up with my brother in the 1980s we spent a great deal of time watching wonderfully inappropriate horror films, mostly on pay TV or late night cable. Peeking through fingers, knowing we shouldn’t be seeing what we were seeing but unable and often unwilling to turn away as our hearts jackhammered our spines, thrilled […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
Pulling Focus: Don’t Look Now (1973)
“The blind one. She’s the one that can see.” –Laura Baxter (played by Julie Christie) Death and the compass An autumn garden in the English countryside, bucolic yet somehow unquiet, two children, Christine and Johnny Baxter (Sharon Williams and Nicholas Slater), gambol and play, unconsciously on the precipice of tragedy. Their parents, John and […]
Pulling Focus: My Dinner With Andre (1981)
“We’re just going around all day like unconscious machines, and meanwhile there’s all this rage and worry and uneasiness just building up and building up inside us.” – Wallace Shawn, My Dinner With André All you can eat A few summers ago, back in 2009, I hand picked some of my favourite films for […]
Pulling Focus: Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin
“The film I hope to be remembered by. I have a great fondness for Sorcerer, more than any other film… I consider it my most personal film and the most difficult to achieve… Basically lost for 37 years, its restoration is like Lazarus.” – William Friedkin I can’t go on, I’ll go on In the […]
Pulling Focus: Hiroshima, Mon Amour
“In my film, time is shattered.” – Alain Resnais In search of lost time Wow. How enticing it is to consider and suppose that the cinema of the subconsciousness and of memory barely held breath before 1959, when French film director Alain Resnais intimately accepted the subject matter with fascinating affection in his first […]
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20 Great Movies With Very Little Dialogue
From its earliest origins when the Lumière brothers screened the first short films in the late 1800s to the development of narrative films during the silent era and onwards to the massive multiplexes of today, all of the iconic imagery we’ve come to associate with cinema is dominantly due to it being a visual medium. […]