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January 12, 2015

Anita Ekberg (1931-2015) & Francesco Rosi (1922–2015)

Anita Ekberg in her most famous scene: Ad for Rosi’s 1963 Hands Over the City (Le mani sulla città)

November 22, 2014

“As a Friend,” A Film by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte…

… shows tonight, Saturday November 22, 2014 @ 8:30PM as an official selection of the WILLIAMSBURG INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn 80 Wythe Ave Brooklyn, New York (718) 460-8001 “As a Friend”...

Film

May 13, 2014

Trailer for Jean-Luc Godard’s New Movie…

…which will premiere at the Cannes film festival on 21 May. EXCLU – découvrez la bande annonce du nouveau… par franceinter

Film

March 14, 2014

Věra Chytilová (1929-2014)

The great Czech filmaker Věra Chytilová has died at age 85. She is remembered in Fandor (which is also where I found this clip from her masterpiece “Daisies”) by David Hudson: “The director and screenwriter Věra...

Film / Intellectuals / Obituaries / Uncategorized

March 3, 2014

Alain Resnais (1922 -2014)

Resnais: one of the masters, one of the great formalists who knew that form is only an extension of content (& vice-versa). Never repeated himself. Every movie (even if you didn’t like it, or...

Film / Interview / Whatever

January 25, 2014

& Cronenberg Interviews

… Via the German Perlentaucher site (my daily info place for Kulchural matters from Germany) I just came upon these long interviews with David Cronenberg (btw. the above is a still pix, not a...

Film / Whatever

January 24, 2014

See John Cassavetes Get A Haircut

YouTube comment: The Haircut (Tamar Simon Hoffs, 1982) A true gem of a film … you either get it or you don’t. If you get it, you never forget it. For a better quality...

Film / Whatever

November 26, 2013

The Horse’s Ass As Aesthetic Gauge

In the German newspaper Die Welt, Siegfried Tesche speaks with filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, whose latest film Me and You just started its run in Germany, about movie-making and a range of other subjects (If you...

Algeria / Arab Culture / Book Review / Film / Maghrebi Literature

October 18, 2013

Tears of the Crocodile

Below, the opening paras of Regina Keil-Sagawe’s excellent interview with Algerian novelist Yasmina Khadra in Qantara magazine; you can read the full interview here. “There Is a Life after Defeat” Now based in France,...

Art / Film / Performance / Video / Visual Arts

October 8, 2013

Roger Denson’s article on “Breaking the Frame”

I may have been at a loss of words yesterday after seeing Breaking the Frame, Marielle Nitoslawska’s superb film on & with Carolee Schneemann, but cultural critic & essayist G. Roger Denson was not. He had a...