HUBLOTS

At the forefront of the documentary movement since 1986, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi have relentlessly aimed in their work to make archival footages speak. Using original footage as a palimpsest, they resculpt it by decelerating the film’s speed, rephotographing it, reframing a shot, or adding a soundtrack. Explicitly political, their films consider the … Lire la suite Chemical Amnesia and Cinematic Awareness in “Pays Barbare”

Loin des paillettes et de l’apparat bollywoodien, The Lunchbox est un petit bijou de délicatesse et de poésie. Au cœur de Bombay, les dabbawallahs, livrent sans relâche des plats préparés par les épouses pour les apporter aux maris sur leurs lieux de travail. Le film commence lorsque ce service pourtant jugé infaillible se trompe de … Lire la suite The Lunchbox

Summary: Fritz Lang’s classic early crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre), and they begin rounding up every criminal in town. The underworld leaders decide to take the heat off their activities by catching the child killer themselves. Once the killer is fingered, … Lire la suite « M » (1931) by Fritz Lang

Or how music serves evil Here are a few insights to Orson Welles’ handling of music in Touch of Evil. A pretty unorthodox way of using music compared to other movies of the same period.  Summary : An automobile is blown up as it crosses the Mexican border into the United States. Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston), a high … Lire la suite “Touch of Evil” (1958) by Orson Welles

Or how women embody this desirable and terrifying otherness.   Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun crazy were both released after the World War II, in 1945 and 1950. During that period, women were recruited to take men’s jobs since places were vacant due to the mobilization. This social change lead women … Lire la suite A comparative analysis of Annie in « Gun crazy » and Vera in « Detour »

 A brief sum up: Harry, a paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.  Hublots’ view: A subtle film noir turnaround, where the spectator is trapped into a « conversation ». An echo to the Cold War and Big Brother. Surveillance: Like … Lire la suite « The Conversation » (1974) by Francis Ford Coppola

Analyse de la première scène Bref résumé du film : Cary Scott, une jeune et jolie veuve, habite seule dans une petite ville de Nouvelle-Angleterre. Sa solitude n’est adoucie que par les visites occasionnelles de ses grands enfants qui fréquentent des écoles lointaines, de Sara, sa seule amie, et d’un admirateur, Harvey. Cary se lie d’amitié … Lire la suite « All that heaven allows » (1955) de Douglas Sirk