Author Archives for Alexandra Hidalgo

Interview with agnès films member Barb Morrison, score composer for Concussion

October 25, 2013 12:50 am Published by Comments Off on Interview with agnès films member Barb Morrison, score composer for Concussion

It’s always a collaboration between the director and me, and in the case of Concussion, Rose also had a lot of input on where there should be music. I’m also a big fan of using silence in a score. So I always give the film one or two viewings where I actually place silence where I think it should go. Silence can be powerful.


Still from Enough Said

Review of Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said

October 20, 2013 4:08 am Published by Comments Off on Review of Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said

Chemistry, that ever-elusive quality between actors, becomes palpable between Louis-Dreyfus and Gandolfini. The wit and delightful awkwardness of Holofcener’s dialogue rolls out of their tongues with mesmerizing naturalness and we root for their love to succeed so we can watch them share the screen in another scene.


A Materialist Film Practice in the Digital Age

October 14, 2013 12:02 pm Published by Comments Off on A Materialist Film Practice in the Digital Age

My media practice always begins with some tangible phenomena. For this reason, I prefer to use methods that allow me to reflect on the “real” while at the same time re-shaping it. Light-sensitive emulsion is my gateway to re-imagining and re-experiencing the physical world in a tactile and connected way even as digital processes engulf contemporary art and commerce with virtual disconnected ease.


Review of Sally Potter’s Ginger and Rosa

October 9, 2013 8:00 am Published by Comments Off on Review of Sally Potter’s Ginger and Rosa

Ginger and Rosa begins quietly, focused on a grainy, color-saturated image of the most horrifying thing in the world: an atom bomb exploding. Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) are born on the day the bomb drops on Hiroshima in 1945, their lives forever entwined in a frenzy of discovery for better or for worse.


Review of Margarethe Von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt

October 4, 2013 5:21 pm Published by Comments Off on Review of Margarethe Von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt

While I was slightly wary of the wisdom of casting Barbara Sukowa as Arendt, I believed the actor and the director would do justice to their subject, but after watching the film I remained disappointed and unconvinced.