Maximilian Le Cain

[Følgende beskrivelse af skribenten er fra 2013 eller tidligere:] Maximilian Le Cain is a filmmaker and critic based in Cork, Ireland. His short films include Kingdom of the Shadows (2002), Dead Time (2003) and Another Last Glimpse (2004). His articles have frequently appeared in Senses of Cinema. He has also written for, among others, Film Ireland, Rouge and the Maurice Pialat website. He is a contributor to Kill Bill: An Unofficial Casebook (D.K. Holm, Glitter Books, 2005) and a forthcoming book of essays on Roman Polanski (ed. John Orr and Elzbieta Ostrowska, Wallflower Press, 2005). He is currently writing a book on the films and videos of James Fotopoulos.

On Reflection: Mirror and Me

FEATURE. Film director Andrzej Zulawski once remarked that one should never revisit films that one cannot tame. In this essay, Maximilian Le Cain does just that. In reassessing Andrei Tarkovsky’s Zerkalo/The Mirror (1974) and untangling it from the personal contexts in which he previously viewed the film, Le Cain explicates the ‘uncontainable’ nature of a film where a gust of wind is organically tied to the subjective world of the characters.

Maximilian Le Cain

On Reflection: Mirror and Me

Shadowplays: Tod Browning’s ‘Dracula’ and Karl Freund’s ‘The Mummy’