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I abject: the not-so-simple propaganda of Veit Harlan’s Jew Suss
In the first of two posts reassessing the Nazi collaborations of German director Veit Harlan, Brad Stevens scratches at the antisemitic surface of his notorious 1940 drama Jew Suss.
Monday 21 November 2016 -
Why Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song is a radical blaxploitation classic
Melvin Van Peebles’ Sweetback is no Shaft clone, but the provocative hero of a dreamlike movie in which nothing can be taken for certain, argues Brad Stevens.
Tuesday 18 October 2016 -
Quentin Tarantino’s wilfully unsatisfying endings ask us to confront our baser film-watching urges, says Brad Stevens.
Friday 26 August 2016 -
Bodies off: Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn’s under-the-skin flick
The art of decomposition: Brad Stevens on why Bill Gunn’s vampire film drives a stake through classical film craft.
Saturday 23 July 2016 -
Home of the weak: Out of the Past and four ways of framing film noir
How can we define films noir? Are they really all about fatalism, and gynophobia – or could the richest of them actually hint at what it means to lose the rat race, asks Brad Stevens?
Thursday 30 June 2016 -
The Pedestrian: post-war Germany without the chewing gum
Maximilian Schell’s 1973 investigation of West Germany’s relationship with its Nazi past wishes away the American cultural trappings that inform the better-known works of his New German Cinema peers. It’s the sort of failure from which cults are made, says Brad Stevens.
Tuesday 3 May 2016 -
Mirror, mirror: Jacques Rivette, the Marx Brothers and the plays we game
Brad Stevens on what links Duck Soup’s celebrated nightdress pantomime and Jacques Rivette’s multidimensional actresses – an anarchic scepticism about the very possibility of stable identity.
Friday 4 March 2016 -
The Bergman-Rossellini ending variations
Should Ingrid stay or should she go? Brad Stevens on Roberto Rossellini’s ambivalence across the multiple endings of Stromboli and Fear (La Paura) in circulation.
Tuesday 12 January 2016 -
No way home: Steven Spielberg’s roads to nirvana
All the old binary definitions melt away as we follow one of the last great populists of American cinema over the horizon, argues Brad Stevens.
Tuesday 1 December 2015 -
The comfort of disaster (movies)
The 1970s were a chaotic time, Hollywood overrun by deranged auteurs. Luckily there were still a column of white-bread movie stars on hand to save the day, says Brad Stevens.
Wednesday 23 September 2015
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