Queline Meadows

Dec 11, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Queline Meadows

Critic, India Kiss Wagon (Midhun Murali, India) Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati, US) La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy, France, Switzerland, Turkey) All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia, France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, US, Italy, Switzerland) A Traveler’s Needs (Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, UK, France, US) Village Rockstars 2 (Rima Das, Singapore, India) About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey, France, Germany, Sweden, Qatar) Aattam (Anand...

Aug 22, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Alain Robbe-Grillet |Richard Roud |Lizzie Francke |Queline Meadows

In our Autumn 1961 issue, the French writer and filmmaker recalled his near-telepathic collaboration with Alain Resnais on Late Year at Marienbad. 22 August 2024Alain Resnais and I have often been asked just how we worked together during the conception, writing and making of Last Year at Marienbad. And if I try to answer this question I may also throw a little light on our attitude to expression in the cinema.

Aug 17, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Richard Roud |Lizzie Francke |Queline Meadows |Sophia Satchell-Baeza

No critic in his right mind would ever presume to review films as complex as Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar or Godard’s Masculin Féminin on the basis of single viewings. Which is all I have had. Charitably assuming I am no more foolhardy than the next man, what, then, is the point of the present article? As the mumbo-jumbo mathematics of the title seeks to indicate, these are more in the nature of previews, and only secondarily-and tentatively-reviews. Not so much a conclusion, more a prolegomena.

Aug 14, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Queline Meadows |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Alfred Hitchcock |Stuart Isaac Burnside

The one film I’ve watched more than any other is Experimental Animation 1933, also known as The Peanut Vendor. It’s a short in which a stop-motion monkey sings along to Red Nichols’ recording of ‘The Peanut Vendor’ and dances outside the window of a potential customer. Len Lye – an artist better known today for his sculpture and direct animation work – built the puppet and animated it himself. For some reason, I’ve watched this monkey sell peanuts 24 times.

Jul 4, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Richard G. Combs |Richard Roud |Lizzie Francke |Queline Meadows

Ships that pass in the night. John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), about a strip-club entrepreneur in debt to the Mob, was apparently dreamt up in the course of an evening with Martin Scorsese.