Tim Cawkwell's Cinema
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Essays and ideas
Here is a selection of short essays covering an eclectic section of film topics:
- 'Kieslowski before Kieslowski' (pdf, 8 pages) and 'Timeline for Krzysztof Kieslowski' (pdf)
- Play vs opera vs film: Rossellini's Voce Humana
- Thoughtbites on Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
- The Big Combo eulogized
- Walking Too Fast (2010) from the Czech Republic
- In praise of Ryszard Bugajski's Interrogation (1982), a 'shelf movie'
- Hitchspeare? Hitchcock and Shakespeare compared
- Step aside Aung San Suu Kyi and Maggie Thatcher: make way for Vaclav Havel
- We need to talk about Kevin and Tree of Life: compare and contrast
- 'The Archbishop, the criminal and the repair of destinies': essay (pdf, 6 pages) on the idea of confession in Dostoevsky, Bresson, Graham Greene, Simenon [which links to the idea sketched in Reflections on Bresson 1: Detectives]
- Ten brief thoughts in praise of Eric Rohmer, marking his death in January 2010 (pdf, 2 pages)
- The White Ribbon's power to shock (pdf, 6 pages)
- On the Waterfront's Unanswered Question: Bernstein's music for On the Waterfront (1954) and a suggested link to Charles Ives
- Solaris: Soviet engineering, and the glories of Soviet science fiction
- A Cathedral Tale: in praise of Powell & Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale (1944) (pdf, 6 pages)
- No Country for Old Men (pdf, 7 pages) - a fine film by the Coen Brothers, and an even finer novel by Cormac McCarthy
- Perfect Storm - in praise of John Ford and against the cinema of hyperbole: this appeared in the Australian online journal, 'Senses of Cinema' in 2006. Click here for a link.
from Interrogation (1982)
Eric Rohmer
Alison in A Canterbury Tale (1944)