Adrian Martin Movies

A day in the life of two film school students trying to find love and another housemate.

"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for us, almost 55 years on from Contempt’s initial...

An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk's film The Tarnished Angels (1957). Analyzes a central scene 40 minutes into the narrative, and also refers both...

This visual essay focuses on the visual style and composition of the Hollywood films made together by Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich.

An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico influence Trump's imagination.

PHANTASMAGORIA OF THE INTERIOR is an audiovisual essay devoted to Walerian Borowczyk's film THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE....

In 1921, at the tender age of 24, filmmaker and theorist Jean Epstein (1897-1953) described the screen spectacle of a person smiling. In close-up....

In 1984, Raymond Bellour reflected on a method and style of film analysis that grasped – as modern cinema itself also did – for decisive...

Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López explore the joy and regret of nostalgia with one of the cinema’s great, spare poets of...

a montage of a motif in Philippe Garrel's Cinema: walking.

An audiovisual essay on Nosferatu (1922) illustrating how F.W. Murnau used poetic montage to evoke an imaginary, secretive, ‘wishful...

In 1979, film scholar Noël Burch strongly criticized the films from the 1950s by Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse. He would be stuck in a...

One day after D-Day and American and German soldiers are separated from their respective units. Both Paul and Manning struggle with their situation....

With the release of Nicholas Ray's debut They Live by Night in 1948, a new style emerged in American narrative film. A style full of risk and...

In their lyrical and philosophical video essay, “Telescopic Intimacy”, Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin explore the...

an audio-visual essay on the unconscious relationships between Fuller's Naked Kiss and David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return.