Smart Words About Cinema
[Originally written for the University of Washington Office of Cinema Studies Film Series "Love and Death," November 15, 1983] Jerzy Skolimowski. The name does not come trippingly to the Anglo-Saxon tongue, but it’s worth fixing in mind all the same, for Skolimowski is one of the sharpest filmmakers now living. He doesn’t get to make [...]
[Originally written for the University of Washington Office of Cinema Studies Film Series "Voices and Visions," April 20, 1982] Tight shot: a man’s back, naked, bent, straining; his bands tied behind him; his head, whether yearning forward or bowed in fear and trembling, unseen. The posture faintly evokes your basic bullet-in-the-back-of-the-neck, Darkness at Noon–style execution. The [...]