Adrian Martin is film critic for The Age (Melbourne) and author of a study of Terrence Malick.
Articles by Adrian Martin
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Video essay: Maurice Pialat – three steps to magic
How Maurice Pialat forged his searing emotional dramas across three stages of artistic alchemy. A video essay by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin.
Friday, December 6, 2019
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From the Magazine
Fugitive variations: Philippe Garrel’s elliptical cinema of a life
For more than 50 years, the French director Philippe Garrel has condensed, refracted and reimagined the highs and lows of his life on film, write Cristina Alvarez López and Adrian Martin.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
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Wrapped in plasticity: Twin Peaks’ myriad Laura Palmers
Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin conduct a forensic examination of the slippages at play in David Lynch and Mark Frost’s surrealistic investigative series.
Friday, April 28, 2017
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From the Magazine
Film of the week: Elle – far deeper (and more disquieting) than a rape-revenge thriller
Isabel Huppert’s darkly defiant bourgeois renegade turns the tables on her rapist in Paul Verhoeven’s masterfully twisted meditation on human bondage, write Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López.
Friday, March 10, 2017
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Video: A tour through French noir
What makes French film noir French? Dive down to the lowest depths with Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin’s video abstract, charting six key Gallic characteristics of cinema’s most alluringly brooding genre.
Friday, November 4, 2016
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Video: Haunted memories – the cinema of Víctor Erice
Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López explore the joy and regret of nostalgia with one of the cinema’s great, spare poets of sense-memory.
Friday, September 2, 2016
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Video essay: Lines of resistance – Anne-Marie Miéville’s The Book of Mary
Counterpointing Godard: Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin offer a taste of Anne-Marie Miéville’s cinema, and a look at the patterns at play in her prologue to her partner’s Hail Mary.
Friday, February 26, 2016
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From the Magazine
Throughout her career, the great director Chantal Akerman – who has sadly died, aged 65 – pursued certain themes and ideas. Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin offer a guide to some of the most important.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
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From the Magazine
Abel Ferrara collages the last day (give or take) and lost works of Italian cinema poet Pier Paolo Pasolini in his own inimitable way, says Adrian Martin.
Friday, September 11, 2015
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From the Magazine
Lisandro Alonso’s elliptical Patagonian western elides materiality, myth and surreal melodrama to riddle the mask of civilisation, says Adrian Martin.
Friday, April 10, 2015
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