TagJean Epstein

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

Jean Epstein’s visual poetic realism meets Leos Carax's abstract elegiac poem

REVIEWS

Italian Gangsters – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Renato De Maria creates an unconventional and extremely minimalistic dramatized documentary that explores the most violent thirty-year criminal period of post-war Italy.

Marécages (Wetlands, 2011)

Α highly realistic kitchen sink drama of a family's dissolution set in the rural isolated environment of Quebec's Wetlands. Debut feature film by Guy Édoin.

Ikarie XB-1 (Voyage to the End of the Universe, 1963)

The pioneering Czechoslovak science fiction film by Jindrich Polák, based on Stanislaw Lem's The Magellanic Cloud.

Algunas Chicas (Some Girls) – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A rather obscure and off beat thriller by Santiago Palavecino that is set contemporarily in dream and reality.

Shell – Torino 30

A slow paced family kitchen sink drama directed by Scott Graham and set in the Scottish highlands. Winner of the 30th Torino Film Festival.

QUOTES

Solitudine (1966)

Scenes from the experimental short film Solitudine by the Italian independent director Romano Scavolini.

Alain Robbe-Grillet: What is Formalism?

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: "You see," he says, "now that’s formalism."

A cinephile’s wish

André Téchiné responds as a true cinephile to the question by Colette Descombes in Brigitte et Brigitte (1966)

Kieślowski on his work

You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

Pasolini e gli italiani

Intelligence will never have much value in the collective judgment of this public's opinion.