TagAbraham Polonsky

Crime, Film-Noir, Politics

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Force of Evil (Ο Νόμος των Γκάνγκστερ, 1948)

Ο Abraham Polonsky υπονοεί πως η επιχειρηματικότητα δεν απέχει καθόλου από την εγκληματικότητα και πως κάτι διεφθαρμένο υπάρχει στην άσπιλη μεταπολεμική Αμερικάνικη κοινωνία.

Crime, Film-Noir, Politics

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Force of Evil (1948)

Abrahams Polonsky suggests that entrepreneurship is not so far away from criminality and that something is corrupted in the immaculate postwar American society.

REVIEWS

Yuri Esposito – Venice 70 Biennale College

This is the kind of comedy film that you should await from an emerging and innovative new director like Alessio Fava.

Viaje – Sarajevo 21 Kinoscope

Paz Fábrega creates a low-key romantic bittersweet journey where a boy meets a girl as the time runs against them.

Ja Tozhe Hochu (Me Too) – Venice 69 Orizzonti

Alexei Balabanov's last and most personal film. An adaptation on Tarkovsky's Stalker myth set in Balabanov's provocative world.

A Quintet – Friend Request – Sarajevo 20

Friend Request is trying to deal in the most detached way with the unsolved and crucial problems that the Middle East faces.

Kaigenrei (Coup D’État, 1973)

The third and final film of Yoshishige Yoshida's political trilogy that marked the Japanese New Wave.

QUOTES

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

Jean Epstein’s visual poetic realism meets Leos Carax's abstract elegiac poem

John Cassavetes on Art

Art, meaning that we will enjoy ourselves and express ourselves freely.

Trans-Europ-Express Eroticism

These black corsets, these slit skirts, these chains, these popular erotic images that I treated as you say fairly stereotypical belong, I believe, to a collective erotic material

Alain Robbe-Grillet: What is Formalism?

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: "You see," he says, "now that’s formalism."

I don’t like the word success

For me, success means attaining something I'd really like. That's success.