Bradlands
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Mikio Naruse’s Wife: married to the mainstream
This rarely shown film by the great Japanese director explores new ways for men and women to live together and apart – as victims of modernity spread their wings to embrace dangerous freedoms, writes Brad Stevens.
Monday 23 October 2017 -
Queen of the Desert: Werner Herzog bows to Nicole Kidman
The flipside of the director’s famed portraits of hubristic male adventurers, this Gertrude Bell biopic, still undistributed in the UK, not only features a rare female Herzogian protagonist but willingly adopts the style of a Nicole Kidman vehicle, writes Brad Stevens.
Tuesday 26 September 2017 -
Waking after hours: Ted Kotcheff’s influence on Martin Scorsese
Could these two bleakly comic films, one about a teacher lost in the outback and another about an 80s yuppie in peril on the streets of New York, have more in common than first meets the eye, asks Brad Stevens.
Tuesday 22 August 2017 -
Akira and Q & A: the joy of juxtapositions
Watching two ostensibly different films back to back can entirely colour our understanding of them both, as when Brad Stevens viewed Sidney Lumet’s 1990 police thriller along side Otomo Katsuhiro’s classic 1987 anime.
Sunday 23 July 2017 -
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami: “A stick like that of Punch”
A puppet show gives Albert Lewin’s picaresque “history of a scoundrel” its leading metaphor – a symbol of patriarchal privilege, female oppression and sexual energy, writes Brad Stevens.
Friday 7 July 2017 -
Auteur at sea: Mike Nichols’ docu-thriller The Day of the Dolphin
This marine-themed actioner from 1973 is full of surprises, writes Brad Stevens. As a presidential assassination plot takes over an educational film about wildlife, are witnessing a draft of the director’s emotional autobiography?
Wednesday 24 May 2017 -
Ishtar, Elaine May and the road not taken
This misunderstood 1980s comedy critiqued 1980s American foreign policy and parodied male narcissism, which is probably why it also destroyed its director’s career, writes Brad Stevens.
Monday 24 April 2017 -
All that mise en scène allows: Douglas Sirk’s expressive use of gesture
In Douglas Sirk’s famous melodrama All That Heaven Allows, the smallest hand movements of the actors speak volumes about their relationships, writes Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 22 March 2017 -
Zero heroes: President Trump and the impervious postmodern movie hero
Did a frivolous turn for the Hollywood thriller set the scene for America’s insatiable new winner-in-chief, wonders Brad Stevens?
Monday 23 January 2017 -
Opfergang and Veit Harlan’s sexual subversions
In the second part of a special focus on Veit Harlan, Brad Stevens reveals how the director’s later work continued to undermine fascist ideology.
☞ See also I abject: the not-so-simple propaganda of Veit Harlan’s Jew Suss
Monday 19 December 2016
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