The autobiography for which the film is based is notable as it is a historical account from the victim, rather than the perpetrator, as John Harrington puts it "Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason." The victim in this case is Solomon Northup (The exceptional talent, Chiwetel Ejiofor) a freed slave who is kidnapped and sold back in to slavery, and the perpetrator, 19th Century United States. This account from the…
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Wavelength 1967
Michael Snow's controversial 1967 film is fundamentally a zoom shot of a loft strung over 45 minutes. It starts with a long shot of the loft. The camera begins to zoom in inexorably with complete disregard to the goings on in the loft. Characters come and go whilst doing assorted activities (talking, listening to The Beatles on the radio, making phone calls). Then a man walks in and dies. Could it be a murder? A heart attack? The camera doesn't…
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