Jose Teodoro
Triangular Space: John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday
By Jose Teodoro | | Cinema Scope Online
By José Teodoro It begins with hands, a doctor’s hands, pressing gently into the flabby belly of a nervous, middle-aged patient. And again and again, hands reappear—most often those of Alex Greville (Glenda Jackson) or of Daniel Hirsch (Peter Finch), each caressing the smooth, naked back of Bob Elkin (Murray Head), an ambitious sculptor and…
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Get Out of the Car: David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis
By Adam Nayman | | CS51, Features, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By José Teodoro and Adam Nayman Cosmopolis opens with a hubcap-level pan across a fleet of white stretch limousines, objects of ostentatious wealth, absurdly oversized and ugly, yet invisible in their anonymity and ubiquity, luxurious yet barely able to move through a teeming city’s daily traffic. A great deal of David Cronenberg’s film, which spans…
Read More Reboot Polish: Fright Night / Conan the Barbarian
By Jose Teodoro | | Cinema Scope Online
By José Teodoro Tom Holland’s Fright Night, a witty and engaging little sleeper about a high school student who discovers his new neighbour is a vampire and seeks to exterminate him in the face of the usual disbelieving authority figures, surprisingly became the highest-grossing horror movie of 1985. It was overlong, featured no major stars…
Read More DVD: Nicolas Roeg’s Insignificance
By Jose Teodoro | | Cinema Scope Online
By José Teodoro Nicolas Roeg began his directing career only after working for more than two decades as a focus puller, camera operator, and eventually cinematographer for the likes of David Lean, Richard Lester and François Truffaut. Yet what was already clear by the time of Walkabout (1971), his solo directorial debut and penultimate credit…
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