Embrace of the Serpent / El Abrazo de la Serpiente
The latest film of Ciro Guerra, El Abrazo de la Serpiente/Embrace of the Serpent, is a wonderful piece of cinematic art, full of mystery, beauty, and intimate c...
Tag: cinema
The Transformations of Movie Palaces
Walking the Broadway at Los Angeles downtown turns into an investigation about the ruins of the 20th century entertainment industry. Footprints of movie palaces...
Cinematic Language and Aural Imaginaries
Since the end of the 1980s, exploring the aural dimension of cinematic language has opened a new field of film scholarship. One of the leading figures in this a...
Melodrama, Cinema, and the Mechanization of Emotions
In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), ...
The Compilation Score of The Children of Men(2006)
Although the practice of building a film music score by selecting a number of pre-recorded songs has been well established since the 1970s, this method of “comp...
Hearing a Needle in a Haystack: Playful Disorientation and Laughter in Tati’s Play Time (1967).
Directed and written by Jacques Tati, and produced by Jolly Film and Specta Films, Play Time was released in France in 1967 after three long years of expensive ...
Waiting in Line for Iron Sky
Waiting in lines is one of the cultural practices of the attendees to the SXSW festival. Tonight we did again a very long line around the Ritz Theater in oder t...