When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
That's one of the marks of a great film artist, I think-the ability to compress, condense, to find resonance in the simplest of images, and to never waste an image, making it work on a number of levels.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
St. Francis thus becomes the first historical film to take place in the present tense.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
Ruiz's images shake our security.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
as Robert Preston performs it, it's a tinglingly joyous moment, the only drag act in film history that is not humiliating, but genuinely expansive.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
It is impossible to extrapolate a single, definite point of view from them: they seem to demand that we look everywhere at once, be everywhere at once.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
He has gained his art, but he has lost his life.
Dave Kehr • When Movies Mattered: Reviews from a Transformative Decade
The subtitles, which make the most muffled speeches comprehensible, are an interference, though the raggedness of the sound makes Pialat's point: this isn't rhetorical dialogue, addressed to the audience to make dramatic and character points, but speech considered as a sound effect, part of the natural content of the image.