Auteur Series No. 1: The Complete Works of David Lynch
This inaugural edition of Caméra-Stylo’s Auteur Series section presents a complete view of David Lynch, which is, of course, an impossible perspective to wholly achieve but one that is eminently worthwhile to pursue.
Hamnet : The rest is silence
The opening and closing images of a film are rarely arbitrary. They are among the most concentrated sites of cinematic meaning. The first image establishes a world, a rhythm, a vocabulary. The final image returns us to that vocabulary and tells us how to understand what we have seen. If the opening scene proposes a way of seeing, the closing scene confirms, complicates, or transforms it. In this sense, the beginning and end of a film are not just bookends to the narrative — not just the ‘once upon a time’, and ‘happily ever after’ — but often point to the film’s deepest thematic designs.
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