La Antena (The Aerial) first published by EyeforFilm, 7th March, 2008 “Once upon a time there was a city without a voice. Somebody had taken away the voices of all its inhabitants. Many, many years went by and nobody seemed bothered by the silence.” In La Antena (The Aerial), writer/director Esteban Sapir realises his mute…
Tag: silent cinema
To Sleep So As To Dream (1986)
To Sleep So As To Dream (Yumemiru yôni nemuritai) first published by Little White Lies, as entry 150 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Watching Kaizō Hayashi’s To Sleep So As To Dream (Yumemiru yôni nemuritai) involves also watching The Eternal Mystery, a silent melodramatic chanbara in which the ‘Black Mask’ strives to rescue the beautiful…