Blake Williams

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Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)

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Review: La Fée (The Fairy)

Given the repetition of their three features, and the recurring criticism that individual bits work better than any coherent whole does, there would be little protest if Abel, Gordon, and Romy switched to exclusively dabble in the short film format. There isn't the same kind of spotlight as there is on features, but then I'm not sure these guys need one shone on them anyway.

La Fée (The Fairy) | Review

French Comedy/Dance Duo Abel, Gordon, & Romy Fly Into Familiar Territory...Again

Review: Criterion Collection: La Jetée and Sans Soleil [Blu-ray]

"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."

Criterion Collection: La Jetee and Sans Soleil | Blu-ray Review

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

Criterion Collection: La Jetée and Sans Soleil [Blu-ray] | DVD Review

"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."

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