Rachel K. Ward is a writer based in Paris. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the European Graduate School where she was a student of Jean Baudrillard. She has written for The New York Times, Art Review, and others and is author of All for Nothing (Atropos Press, 2010). You can find more at rachelkward.com.
Whether via Tarkovsky’s plaintively spiritual pacing or Dumont’s steely resolve to resist expressive embellishment, these kinds of films are not as much about ideas and gestures as they are about passing time in a particular way – in Revanche for example, passing time after a staggering personal loss.
Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Bresson, the Dardennes. Of course a movie is more (or less) than the sum total of its influences, but critic name-checks of so many Filmwell faves catch the eye almost as much as that screenshot… Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver: “Revanche, a ravishing, masterfully restrained, unusually intelligent neo-noir revenge tale from talented Austrian director Götz […]
This collection of paintings by Laura Lasworth were inspired by the life and works of the writer Flannery O’Connor.
In Part I of this interview, Gregory Wolfe discusses beauty, and in Part II he continues this discussion, riffing on the history of IMAGE journal and the importance of sleeping well.
Catherine Wheatley finds Mystery and muddle in South Pole doc “The bleak, barren setting yields some striking imagery, which would be surprising from any other director but is typical of Herzog’s ability to cast the most innocuous of objects in a reverential light. The twin motifs of religion and science fiction frame the landscape: an […]
In Part I of this interview, Gregory Wolfe discusses beauty, and in Part II he continues this discussion, riffing on the history of IMAGE journal and the importance of sleeping well.
What do you think about the Academy’s decision this week to have ten, not five nominees for Best Picture?
Performance artists Industry of the Ordinary invite Americans to the ordinary grocery store for a photograph.