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Fight the Power: Interview with Cyril Schäublin, Writer/Director of Unrest

September 14, 2022 By Søren Hough Leave a Comment

Everything seems to tick in Unrest, the latest effort from Zurich-born writer/director Cyril Schäublin. Unrest depicts the working lives of 19th century anarchist watchmakers in the Swiss mountains, laying bare the absurdities of the wage system. Schäublin follows workers as they navigate their working hours across four different time zones in one town—factory time, train […]

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Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City Blurs Media, Genre and Style

June 26, 2013 By Søren Hough 4 Comments

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For this essay, my professor asked us to find a film and talk about how it uses elements from different media, genres and styles to create something entirely new. I chose to talk about Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City. A black and white hand-drawn frame from the Sin City graphic novel appears on the screen as the Blu-ray […]

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Altman Makes The Long Goodbye, But Not to Film Noir

February 15, 2013 By Anthony Putvinski 1 Comment

Last week, we posted an article about the 1946 adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s harbdoiled novel The Big Sleep starring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and whether it should be classified as a film noir. This week, we look at another adaptation of a Chandler novel from 1973: Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, starring Elliot Gould and Nina […]

London Film Festival 2024 Highlights

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