Film Reviews
M. Powell & E. Pressburger :: A Canterbury Tale
Wartime pastoral drama of memory, pilgrimage and the English countryside.
The films gathered here give landscape a working role: fields, islands, villages and interiors carry memory, ritual, labour and unease. Hwael follows cinema through sound, place and historical residue, from Malick and Tarkovsky to Shindō, Weir and Gladwell. Often the strangest thing is already there, embedded in the ordinary world.
Film Reviews
Wartime pastoral drama of memory, pilgrimage and the English countryside.
Film Reviews
BBC ghost story: railway haunting, signals, telegraphy and dread
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Animated folk tale, fog, forest, fear and unstable perception
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Rural England, memory, burial and the maintenance of a disappearing village
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Folk horror, sexuality, Englishness and a landscape that resists purity
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Maritime horror, labour, hierarchy and the forbidden machinery of light
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Folk horror, reeds, hunger, bodily erosion and postwar memory
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Soviet cinema, memory, family, landscape and a house rebuilt from childhood
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Czech New Wave, folk horror, surrealism and political repression
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Folk horror, nuclear memory, translation and childhood mythmaking
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Folk horror, pagan ritual, landscape and collective belief
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Art cinema, Aboriginal sound, colonial vision and landscape as score