Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut [Warner Brothers] “That’s what you say now, so at this moment you may even believe
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The text offers a vivid commentary on the transformation of landscapes and their symbolic connections to human aspirations and social struggles. It juxtaposes orderly agricultural fields, symbolizing efficiency and ownership, with untamed forests and lawless frontier towns, representing unpredictability and societal conflicts. Through the lens of Anthony Mann’s westerns, it explores themes of law, identity, community, and the struggle for power, questioning the balance between imposed order and innate chaos.
Read MoreNo one recognises these powers as their own (Why Theory?) We have to dispense with the idea that theorising occurs
Read Morea Lost And Found Times anthology [Invisible Books] An excellent compendium of poetry drawn from the Ohio based magazine Lost
Read MoreUltra-red: Second Nature – An Electroacoustic Pastoral [Mille Plateaux] “Thus it was the time of year at which the Bois
Read MoreOn Pasolini’s Salo The attempt to deny differences is a part of the more general enterprise of denying life, depreciating
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Minimal Apertures is an addendum to the article The Western by Howard Slater with short remarks about The Wild Bunch, Once Upon A Time in the West, Winchester 73, McAbe and Mrs Miller, Ulzana’s Raid and El Topo.
Read More(Curfew, Curfew) As we grow more accustomed to the control of the urban environment through surveillance, zero tolerance zones and
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Before Pakula made his well known All the Presidents Men, a film which centres directly on the Watergate debacle, he made The Parallax View, a film which expands the ‘private’ scenario of Klute into a wider social setting and which makes links between government, corporations and the assassinations of the 60s at the same time that it self-reflexively draws further attention to the power-wielding manipulations inherent in mainstream cinema.
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