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Thursday, June 8, 2023

THE SCHOOL OF CHANTAL AKERMAN - JOANNA HOGG: PART TWO

Hotel Monterey / Où en êtes-vous

Chantal Akerman enthusiast and Pinnland Empire favorite; Joanna Hogg released a wonderful short film earlier this year (Où en êtes-vous) that went a little under the radar (I wouldn't have known about had it not been for my friend, filmmaker & Pinnland Empire supporter; Carlo).

I noticed Hogg pulled some imagery from the films of Chantal Akerman. Normally I’d say these shots are pretty banal, but given Hogg’s love of Akerman (click here to read my previous entry), I’d say these comparisons aren’t a coincidence…

La Bas / Où en êtes-vous

No Home Movie / Où en êtes-vous

D'est /
Où en êtes-vous

Toute Une Nuit /
Où en êtes-vous

Portrait Of A Young Girl At The End Of The 1960s In Brussels /
Où en êtes-vous

Hotel Monterey /
Où en êtes-vous

Friday, December 30, 2022

A FEW MORE (ADDITIONAL) WORDS ON THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER UPDATED

Yeah, there’s The Haunting obviously, which is an incredibly frightening film, so I did dare to look at that again before making this. Then there’s The Innocents - Joanna Hogg, letterboxd.com

The Innocents /
The Eternal Daughter

Because I can’t stop thinking about The Eternal Daughter, I had to squeeze out one more post on it...

I came across a recent interview with Joanna Hogg & Tilda Swinton on Rogerebert.com that inspired this post

The Innocents, of course. One of the things that The Innocents has a very uninhibited use of dry ice, which encourages that outside on the lake with the images, and there's something very no holds barred about that - Tilda Swinton, Robertebert.com

with Jovan Ajder, the sound designer, we listened to "The Innocents." We watched it, but really listened to the soundtrack of that and how the sounds are very unnatural, in a way, and very, very, very present - Joanna Hogg, Rogerebert.com

So…in keeping with the theme of gothic physiological ghost stories rubbing off on Joanna Hogg’s latest masterpiece (click here to read my last post)- below is a quick visual exploration on the influence of Jack Clayton’s The Innocents on The Eternal Daughter

Because you had discussed certain aspects of this. You told me a gothic film, and immediately I thought of two pictures: The Innocents (1961), of course, and The Haunting (1963). Again, these things are 50 or 60 years old. Doesn’t matter. These things seem to not age in any way, both those films, and particularly The Innocents. But I felt that what you should be aware of was not only M.R. James, the literature, the casting the runes and that sort of thing, but Night of the Demon, Tourneur’s film, is so unique in that it’s made by a man who actually believed in the supernatural - Martin Scorsese, Metrograph.com

Enjoy…

The Innocents / The Eternal Daughter

The Innocents /
The Eternal Daughter

The Innocents / The Eternal Daughter

The Innocents /
The Eternal Daughter

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

A FEW MORE WORDS ON THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER UPDATED

The Haunting /
The Eternal Daughter

Now that the year has basically come to an end I can safely say that Joanna Hogg’s Eternal Daughter is one of my favorite films of the year (along with Crimes Of The Future, Brainwashed & The Banshees Of Inisherin).

I posted my initial thoughts a few months ago (click here to read) but the film has stayed with me since October (something I can't say about the majority of the stuff I've seen this year).

Joanna Hogg has been very open about her influences (Night Of The Demon, The Shining, the films of Chantal Akerman etc). We looked at a lot of these influences in my original review but Hogg's love for Robert Wise’s The Haunting really shows more than any other film in my opinion.

there's The Haunting, obviously, which is an incredibly frightening film, so I did dare to look at that again before making this - Joanna Hogg, letterboxd

The Eternal Daughter has been categorized by some as a horror film when it's really a ghost story. There are horror films and there are ghost stories. Often times the two have a venn diagram-like crossover but not in the case of The Eternal Daughter. This is a ghost story. I guess if you want to categorize this as a horror story then it’s a horror story without any of the jump scares (or any traditional scares for that matter).

The Haunting / The Eternal Daughter

Visually, The Eternal Daughter is like The Haunting without any of those chaotic moments. From the opening scenes in both films where we travel to the haunted inn right up until check in…

The Haunting / The Eternal Daughter

Throughout the film there are many quick nods to Wise’s horror classic...

The Haunting /
The Eternal Daughter

Some of the more specific moments:

The Haunting /
The Eternal Daughter

Probably the closest the film gets to a scary moment:

The Haunting /
The Eternal Daughter

Even the final moments of The Eternal Daughter are right out of The Haunting.

The Haunting /
The Eternal Daughter

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

THE SCHOOL OF CHANTAL AKERMAN: JOANNA HOGG UPDATED

Chantal’s voice, her face, her body, her life, her past, her ancestral past – all these are, for those of us who have travelled through her work, now imprinted on us forever - Joanna Hogg & Adam Roberts, The Guardian

Jeanne Dielman /

Archipelago

In part 12 of this ongoing series (click here) we looked at a few specific comparisons between Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir and Chantal Akerman’s Les Rendezvous D’Anna which got me to dig out even more comparisons between the two filmmakers. Hogg does not hide her love of Akerman and how much she was influenced by her work (see the various quotes throughout this entry)

Enjoy...

I found the process of rediscovering her work in that slow way, over that period of time, to be incredibly nourishing. It actually made me think a lot about rhythm - Joanna Hogg, Criterion

Jeanne Dielman /
Archipelago

Jeanne Dielman /
Archipelago

It was either while I was making Caprice or shortly afterwards that I first saw Golden Eighties (1986) by Chantal Akerman. It had been destroyed by the press at the time, perhaps because Akerman went too rapidly from austerity to glorious Fujicolor exuberance. But why shouldn't she? I loved its theatricality, its bright colours, its rhythms and catchy songs, its seemingly simple romantic story told with an ironic, knowing eye - Joanna Hogg, Frieze.com

The Golden Eighties /
The Souvenir II

Golden Eighties was another film I watched in the early eighties that makes me think of all those musicals I mentioned before, movies from the seventies that were referencing Hollywood musicals from the thirties and forties but were doing their own - Chantal Akerman, Criterion