MOVIE NIGHT FRIDAY | Hotbox Vintage & Videotheque Bring You “The Green Ray”
August might be wrapping up, but that doesn’t mean summer fun has to end! Come spend your Friday evening under the stars with an outdoor screening of The Green Ray (Le Rayon Vert), hosted by Hotbox Vintage in partnership with Vidéothèque, on Friday August 23rd. In this dreamy ‘80s award-winning film, Delphine finds herself bouncing back […]
Rolling Paint Cans And Questions Of Human Nature: Close-Up (1990)
As I noted in my original post for this blog, I find cinema to reflect society in uncanny ways almost to the point that it is a clear refabrication of our own reality. While many films do not do this in a semiotic sense, given their fantastical elements or historical distancing, some films manage to merge this line so perfectly that the boundaries of factual reality and fictive narrative become blurry, and this is certainly the case for Abbas Kiarostami’s cinematic tour de force Close-Up. A…
