Tag: sound in film

The Tribe: Nothing New Under the (Bleak) Sun

  By
Film Poster for The Tribe, showing a stack of overlapping transparent B/W images of one young man, one young woman, and multiple hands making signs. All images aggregate in the middle, where the film's title appears, subtitled with "Love and Hate need no translation."

|Olga Tchepikova-Treon| As far as I’m concerned, every week at the cinema should be Bleak Week. Well, not every week, but let’s say maybe 40 out of 52 weeks of the year could easily be Bleak Week, and it would be wonderful, cathartic, exhilarating, moving, and maybe even sublime. I like Bleak Week, and bleak movies in general, for mostly… Continue reading

The Sound of Confrontation

  By

|Patrick Clifford| The first frames of Steven Spielberg’s first film, Duel, are black. Total darkness. Before we see anything, we hear footsteps, a car door opening, and a car starting. I love this movie. It’s a great ride. Released in 1971, it has everything that made the 70s, Hollywood’s greatest… Continue reading