Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López

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Cristina Álvarez López is a film critic and teacher at the EQZE Film School (Spain). She was co-founder of the Spanish online film journal Transit: Cine y otros desvíos, and has written for Sight and Sound, MUBI Notebook, Shangri-la, LOLA, Screening the Past, and Screen Education, and in books on Chantal Akerman, Bong Joon-ho, Philippe Garrel and Paul Schrader. Adrian Martin is Adjunct Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Monash University (Australia) and a teacher at the EQZE Film School (Spain). He is the author of ten books, most recently Filmmakers Thinking (EQZE, 2022) and Mysteries of Cinema (2018/2020). His website, containing 3,000 reviews and articles, is at: www.filmcritic.com.au.

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Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López
  • 169 Seconds: Waiting For The Miracle

    169 Seconds: Waiting For The Miracle

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    Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López

    169 SECONDS. In this wonderful instalment of 169 Seconds, made in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of 16:9, Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin explore Abel Ferrara’s independent film Go Go Tales (2007), focusing on its use of Dreyer-like long takes and tour de force performances. In Go Go Tales, Ray Ruby (Willem Dafoe) is desperate, but in one particular scene Ferrara and Dafoe deliver a small miracle. All we have to do is watch and wait.

  • Telescopic Intimacy

    Telescopic Intimacy

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    Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López

    VIDEO-ESSAY. Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin explore the works of avant-garde filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin, focusing on the enigmatic close-ups and the “telescopic intimacy” of his films.

  • A Mere Formality

    A Mere Formality

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    Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López

    VIDEO-ESSAY. Hou Hsiao-Hsien is a great, but somewhat underappreciated Taiwanese auteur, known for his long takes and slow pacing. In this video-essay, Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López explore his unique style as seen in a scene from the 1995-film Good Men, Good Women. Mirroring the tempo and attention to detail in Good Men, Good Women, this video-essay tries to capture the very essence of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s aesthetic.