The Film Canon: The Great Silence (1968)

At first glance there is little to distinguish between Jean-Louis Trintignant’s spaghetti western protagonist ‘Silence’ and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man with No Name’. But over the course of Sergio Corbucci’s The Great Silence we see, not only a completely new figure…

The Film Canon: ‘Aguirre, the Wrath of God’ (1972)

It’s very possible that many people’s first encounter with Werner Herzog’s 1972 German epic Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God) will be through the cinephilic references in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. After the first ten…