Thursday, April 2 2009
The Aesthetics of Absorption: Truffaut’s ‘The 400 Blows’
In Truffaut, the camera works not to keep the viewer out of the constructed reality of the film but rather to draw the viewer into the artifice, to make the viewer complicit in its feigned reality
Thursday, March 19 2009
An Auteur’s Touch of Evil
The auteur is dead, long live the auteur: Orson Welles and Touch of Evil, 50 years on.
Tuesday, May 29 2007
Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction
The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.
Tuesday, May 31 2005
Jules and Jim: Criterion Collection (1962)
'Truffaut had the dread of everything conventional. Above all, he detested the conventionality of the nonconventional,' Jean Gruault notes.

































