Dimitri Kirsanoff’s curve-around Arrière-saison is rigorous, forlorn, haunting. The opening closeup shows the interior window of a spare, remote cabin. A woman enters the frame, looks out. In the forest, a tree falls; the ax whacking at another tree belongs to the woman’s spouse. Outside the cabin, a dog runs in circles in a fenced-in […]
Daily Archives: July 27, 2007
I’ve been down this path before. I finally get to see a legendary movie that it turns out I cannot tolerate. Stan Brakhage, no less, called the film in question a “portal through which every film artist will have to pass.” More about this remark later. What is the film in question? From France, Isadore […]
Dennis Grunes 