by Mattie Lucas
Cinema from a Decidedly Queer Perspective
Music | 2024
Schanelec's films are often defined by their silences. Often outright defiant of traditional "plot," much of the action occurs between what is actually said, leaving the audience to fill in the gaps as the film jumps through space and time without warning.
For most of its life, the Cannon Group was a minor studio known for brawny B-movies like Death Wish, Cobra, Missing in Action, and Masters of the Universe. But during the 1980s, under the direction of co-owners Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who bought the company in 1979, Cannon also used some of its profits to take chances on risky auteur-driven projects in an attempt to gain some prestige. One such project was Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear, a deal Golan and Globus infamously made with Godard on a napkin at the Cannes Film Festival, where the pair were tenaciously courting filmmakers.