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För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor

May 26, 2003 Transcription of a speech given by long-time Derek Jarman collaborator and friend, actress Tilda Swinton

Jubilee

Essays

May 26, 2003 Derek Jarman’s early film epitomizes the despairing and angry mood of Britain in the mid-seventies—a country facing economic recession, virtual war with the IRA, and an uncertain post-imperial future.

Apr 28, 2003 Federico Fellini both identifies with and satirizes the provinciality that forms his romantic comedy's central subject.

Apr 28, 2003 The sense of the difficulty of a real assumption of adulthood gives François Truffaut’s final Antoine Doinel film an undercurrent of anguish, despite its surface lightness.

Apr 28, 2003 The fourth installment in François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel saga is a comedy about marriage, the desire to escape it, and the craftiness involved in running from one’s own desires.

Apr 28, 2003 François Truffaut’s third Antoine Doinel installment is a perpetual juggling act by which harsh truths are disguised as light jokes.

Apr 28, 2003 François Truffaut’s short Antoine Doinel film exposes an entire universe of male adolescent experience.

Mar 24, 2003 Straw Dogs turns on a woman’s rape, and one can’t blame pictures for depicting. But the film shows the woman, after some tart resistance, seeming to enjoy it, and this approaches the apex of what a delicate soul might call...

Mar 18, 2003 Director William Dieterle’s 1941 film adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story “The Devil and Daniel Webster” is a melodramatic fever dream, a hallucinatory tour de force.

Still Curious

Essays

Mar 10, 2003 Vilgot Sjöman’s cultural-sexual sensation sparked much critical and popular mayhem, only to be consigned to nearly instantaneous oblivion.

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