THOUGHTS OF XANADU

your face distracted me exactly as i had imagined, the same languor of your lips, the beautiful fragility of your fingers, that mascara whic...

Bergman's Winter Light functions as a drama, both as a story and as a piece of cinema. The camera is central to this 'movie', f...

A group of stragglers and bums had gathered outside the ramparts of an old fort in ruins. Beyond, one could see the lights of the city, but ...

Luis Bunuel's Susana is generally regarded as one of his lesser movies though I would go on to say here that he only made great movies....

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4. he saw the most beautiful flowers laid out on the wet green grass, flowers in their most riotous colour, splattered with colour, as if al...

3. you did not read the pages that fluttered away, pages with words or something like that, you relied on conjecture and hearsay, you though...

In Chabrol's Le Ceremonie , class consciousness pervades not only the unconscious but all visible relations. Henceforth, from the first...

Sadako, the plump young and portly lower class suburban wife has certain certainties in her life that she expects but beyond these, there is...

There’s a secret sickness called Lisa. Like all sicknesses it’s miserable and it comes on at night. In the weave of a mysterious language wh...

1. He loved her but he also loved the haze that surrounded her. Naturally, he was quick to accept the distance between them, anything otherw...

She didn’t come. I said: And she won’t…so let me rearrange the evening with what suits my failure and her absence: ...

Claude Chabrol's cinema is rightly regarded as the cinema of ambiguity, to which I add that his cinema is also the cinema of style. And ...