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Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
If you think that a film about the life of a donkey cannot be moving and take your breath away, watch AU HASARD BALTHAZAR from 1966, and think again. The film by French master Robert Bresson on the topics of violence as well as compassion is one of those films that change the way you see the world.
Wim Wenders (excerpt from an introduction published on Acontraplus in November 2023)
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Easy Rider 1969
(...) EASY RIDER is a film about America. EASY RIDER is a film mainly in long shots. EASY RIDER is a political film. (...) EASY RIDER begins with the music of Steppenwolf. Born to Be Wild. The Pusher. (...) A motorbike ride from Los Angeles to New Orleans, that's the story of this film. A story of long empty roads, of empty petrol stations, of Monument Valley, of suburbs where the advertisements on the roofs are twice as high as…
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La Pointe Courte 1955
LA POINTE-COURTE is in no way like any fictional film or documentary I know, let alone from the mid-fifties. La Pointe Courte is a suburb of Sète in the South of France where Agnès Varda had grown up, after her family had to flee during the Second World War. Was it just the location for a melodrama, or was the melodrama a pretext to document La Pointe Courte? The first shot starts on a wooden plank, which anybody could easily…
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Rebel Without a Cause 1955
For me, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE is the archetypal coming-of-age film, and Nicholas Ray is the ideal director for such an undertaking, downright visionary at the beginning of a worldwide youth movement that was triggered by this film. Ray's entire empathy is with his young protagonists, and he knows only too well what their longings are, what they are rebelling against and how much they express their conflicts with clothes, gestures or their bodies. Of course, James Dean was the…
