Don't Look Now: Editing as Premonition

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000

Nicolas Roeg was a cinematographer before he was a director, and Don’t Look Now is the film of a man who thinks in images the way a poet thinks in rhyme. Released in 1973 and adapted from a Daphne du Maurier short story, it follows a married couple to a wintry, decaying Venice after the death of their young daughter, where the husband begins to glimpse a small red-coated figure in the alleys and a blind psychic warns that his life is in danger. On paper it is a supernatural thriller. On screen it is something stranger and greater: a film that uses the mechanics of editing to dramatise grief, foresight, and the terrible idea that time might not run in a straight line.

City of God: The Favela Epic Shot Like a Bullet

Sat, 26 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

City of God opens with a knife on a whetstone and a chicken making a break for freedom, and within ninety seconds it has taught you its entire grammar. The camera whips, the cuts land like punches, a boy stands frozen between an armed gang and the police, and the film freezes with him — then spins backwards through years to explain how he got there. Fernando Meirelles’ 2002 film about the drug wars in a Rio de Janeiro housing project is the most propulsive crime picture of its century, and more than twenty years on it has lost none of its capacity to leave you slightly winded. It moves like it is being chased, because everyone in it is.

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Don't Look Now: Editing as Premonition

City of God: The Favela Epic Shot Like a Bullet