North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

Roger Thornhill likes to carry around a matchbox with his initials on it, in the middle of them there is a ‘0’, as in R ‘0’ T. Thornhill has no middle name. This is the key to the concept of the film ‘North by Northwest’. The ‘0’ represents that there is a hole in the plot: the man, the myth, the legend… Kaplan. Even Thornhill … Continue reading North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

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I’m Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)

This film is about Bob Dylan. Or so it tells us. However, is it rather about the humanity that everyone, and even Bob Dylan, has? Who knows? All we see is a film that portrays the lives of many types of people trapped within different societies; societies that claim normality as the only option. Such normality requires the viewer to bring these personalities together to … Continue reading I’m Not There (Todd Haynes, 2007)

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