RKS 2023 Film: “Subtraction”: Riders on the Storm and “Rear Window”

Watching the French-Iranian film “Subtraction” I think of Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock’s 1954 “Rear Window”. Why? If you watch this film keep this refrain from the Door’s song “Riders on the Storm” in mind: “There’s a killer on the roadHis brain is squirmin’ like a toadTake a long holidayLet your children playIf you give thisContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Subtraction”: Riders on the Storm and “Rear Window””

RKS Film: “Road Trip”: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Panah Panahi has crafted a clever film in the Iranian film “Road Trip”. It is a wonderful film and does not hand feed you. It is delightfully vague and I believe perhaps intentionally so or has Iranian autocracy hardwired Panahi as a matter of survival to be discrete? If you know the repression of IranianContinue reading “RKS Film: “Road Trip”: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”