Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964) w/ Ben Vargas & Seth Vargas
Bonus episode alert!
In today’s Special Features episode Felicia is joined by Seth Vargas (check out our previous episode on Le Bonheur), and Ben Vargas to discuss one of the most gripping desert films, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s Woman in the Dunes (1964).
They chat about the how the sand engulfs the characters and the screen, how the score highlights the horrors they are facing, and the concept of eroticism as it relates to loneliness and desperation.
This was a first watch for Felicia and spoilers it was one of the best films she has ever seen!
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Sources:
https://www.criterion.com/current/top-10-lists/377-isabel-sandovals-top-10
Head in the sand: the ending of Woman of the Dunes | Sight and Sound (bfi.org.uk)
Midnight Eye review: Woman in the Dunes (Suna no Onna, 1964, Hiroshi TESHIGAHARA)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-woman-in-the-dunes-1964
Woman in the Dunes Blu-ray - Kyôko Kishida (dvdbeaver.com)
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Woman-in-the-Dunes/pages/Woman-in-the-Dunes-083.htm
OUTRO MUSIC by Tôru Takemitsu
FILMS MENTIONED:
The NeverEnding Story (Wolfgang Petersen 1984)
The Goonies (Richard Donner 1985)
Bloodsport (Newt Arnold 1988)
Le bonheur (Agnès Varda 1965)
Bottoms (Emma Seligman 2023)
Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky 1973)
G.I. Joe: The Movie (Don Jurwich 1987)
Shiva Baby (Emma Seligman 2021)
Faces Places (Agnès Vara & J.R. 2017)
Bacurau (Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho 2019)
Police Story (Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen 1985)
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson 1957)
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni 1970)
Workingman’s Death (Michael Glawogger 2005)
Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah 1971)
Deliverance (John Boorman 1972)
Misery (Rob Reiner 1990)
Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Cluzot 1953)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Mike Nichols 1966)
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick 1999)
The Mask (Chuck Russell 1994)
Possessed (Curtis Bernhardt 1947)
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl 1945)
Angel Face (Otto Preminger 1952)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder 1950)
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