Author Alexander Back

Some decades before Frantisek Vláčil released his first film Holubice (The White Dove, 1960), Pablo Picasso painted L’enfant au pigeon (Child with Dove, 1901). The painting depicts a child standing in a room of...

Is the arrival of a cinematic New Wave first detected at a film festival? There are few earlier places for the public to notice – between the breaks, curves, and depths – the ripple beneath the surface of the s...