TagHistoire(s) du Cinéma

Godard on Italian Cinema

Godard on Italian Cinema

How did Italian cinema become so great if no one - Rossellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Fellini - recorded sound with image?

REVIEWS

Krugovi (Circles, 2013)

A heroic act during the Yugoslav war haunts the lives of the heroes. Concentric circles of fate can bring atonement. Directed by Srdan Golubović.

Interruption – Venice 72 Orizzonti

With his directorial debut, Yorgos Zois breaks the fourth wall as he is experimenting on how myth and art interrupt actual life. Or is it the other way around?

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Senem Tüzen explores if Motherland could be the place of reconciliation of past and present in an ongoing love-hate relationship between a mother and her daughter.

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.

Boy Meets Girl (1984)

The first masterfully structured abstract elegiac work by Leos Carax as he becomes French cinema's most acknowledged enfant terrible.

QUOTES

those lacking imagination

take refuge in reality

Żuławski on pleasing the majority

I don't make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment

David Cronenberg on Manipulation

David Cronenberg on Manipulation

Kieślowski and the magic of screen

As an audience, you find yourself in a state of tension because you're in a world shown to you by the director.

Jafar Panahi: I don’t like political movies.

I’m not a political person. I don’t like political movies. But I take every opportunity to comment on the social issues. I talk about the current issues.