Jean-Pierre Melville’s first film, Le silence de la mer (1949), is an adaptation of a novel by Vercors, published clandestinely...
Philippe Garrel’s Elle a passé tant d’heures sous les sunlights… (1985) is full of Warholian, performative scenes based on the...
In 1984, Raymond Bellour reflected on a method and style of film analysis that grasped – as modern cinema itself...
Just four minutes of Park Chan-wook’s Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) are set, and were filmed, in Australia. Yet in...
In Good Morning, Night (2003), Marco Bellocchio re-imagines the kidnapping of Italian politician Aldo Moro by four members of the...
In his final features, Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible Parts I & II (1944), Sergei Eisenstein redefined his...
Adapting a perceptive review in Positif by Alain Masson, this audiovisual essay looks into the intimate mystery and artistry of...
Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946) has its big, classic moments, but its total texture is woven from a thousand smaller movements,...
Cléo from 5 to 7 by Agnès Varda and Strop (Ceiling) by Vera Chytilová were both made in 1962; the...
