Monthly Archives: February, 2012

While an initial glance would suggest that Bullhead simply sets out to deliver what it says it will as a seedy underworld thriller, it becomes an increasingly complex character study that touches on consumption and masculinity in intriguing and surprising ways.

Grabbing the bull by the horns.

Listen Without Prejudice: Experimental Film Has A+ Concept, but Better as Short Film

"With the former film inspiring a plethora of homages (most notably, Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys) and the latter spawning a style of free-form cinema diary that would later be evoked in films by Agnès Varda and Jonathan Caouette, among many others, Marker's role as a pioneer in the latter half of the 20th century is hardly arguable."

Little defense is needed for these two works by Chris Marker. While neither the first nor last films that he made, La Jetée (1962)...