Red Desert (1964) Redux

For me the emotional climax of Red Desert has settled in Corrado’s bedroom, where Giuliana vainly seeks the respite of … More

Three novels by Kobo Abe

Started my 2021 reading journey by tackling these beautiful new editions of three lesser known (I guess) novels by the … More

this is luxuriously nasty throughout but what changes is the emphasis on jo’s rationale. the eventual twists and turns of … More

spadeloads more interesting than Balthazar for two reasons. mouchette herself engages with her fate in a far less facile and … More

Pa-tri-cia! Qu’est-ce qu’il-y a? Rien. Was pleased with how uncool this is. Michel is no authentic cop-killing rogue (though the … More

Films Ema (Larraín, 2020. Mubi) – Big ‘preview’ for this on 1st May; turns out they put it on the main … More

By all accounts an underappreciated writer from Britain’s postwar avant-garde; I’d never heard of her or her ties to B … More

Though I consider them both personal favourites, I don’t feel thoroughly familiar enough with the careers of Visconti or Rossellini … More

Films The Éric Rohmer Collection (Arrow video, 2005) – My concession to Ruth’s suggestion that I take the pandemic as an … More

Antonioni is hardly the trendy choice these days but I can point to L’Eclisse and Blow-up as two transformative films … More