Miscommunication and Art – Subjectivity in Pierrot le Fou
Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou (1965) is a film about miscommunication and subjectivity that illustrates the impossible task of existing simultaneously in ‘the real’ and […]
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Amores Perros: Moments of Weightlessness
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film Amores Perros (2000) is a prime example of what Alissa Quart coined “Hyperlink Cinema” (Quart 1). Essentially, a term that refers to […]
Red Dwarf X: Review of Episodes One and Two
Is Red Dwarf X ‘Hey Ho Pip and Dandy?’ After a thirteen year hiatus — our old(er) friends aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf continue […]
María Novaro’s El Jardín del Edén.
Privileged Voyeurism: Life Within Emblematic Borders. María Novaro’s film El jardín del Edén (1994) is a film about the human condition and the self-imposed boundaries we must […]
Sequence Analysis – Last Yakuza in the Universe
Last Yakuza in the Universe In the opening sequence of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life in the Universe (2003) we see Kenji’s (Tadanobu Asano) imagined suicide. […]