Bridges and Streams: the 7th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain December 2013 Festival Reports Returning for its seventh edition after a three-year hiatus, the Greek Film Archives’ Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival proved an ambitiously programmed event taking place over ten days almost entirely within th...
Hungarian Rhapsody: The Experimental Forum at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain April 2009 Festival Reports 14-23 November 2008 This year saw the addition of an “Experimental Forum” to the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The Forum’s six screenings, programmed by Vassilis Bourikas, offered a rare and valu...
Deval in ’68: An Interview with Patrick Deval Fergus Daly and Maximilian Le Cain August 2008 Before the Revolution The director of Acéphale and Héraclite l’obscur looks back on the people, films and events that have shaped his work and thoughts.
Snow Drift: The 2007 Lucca Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain March 2008 Festival Reports 28 September – 6 October 2007 The Lucca Film Festival was set up in tribute to the late Italian critic Marco Melani. Run by a group of young cinephiles, this remarkable event is distinguished not only by...
Luc Moullet 6-Film Boxset (Blaq Out) Maximilian Le Cain May 2007 DVD Reviews In the course of Gérard Courant’s hugely engaging 2001 documentary portrait of Luc Moullet, L’Homme des roubines (The Man of the Badlands), Moullet approvingly cites Howard Hawks’ opinion that a filmmaker shoul...
Trajectories of Decay: An Interview with Bill Morrison Maximilian Le Cain and Barry Ronan November 2006 Special Dossiers, The Films of Bill Morrison Bill Morrison is one of the most distinctive voices in the independent film scene. On the occasion of a retrospective of his films at the Cork Film Festival in Ireland, he speaks about the practice of his found-footage æsthetic.
Battle in Heaven: An Interview with Carlos Reygadas Maximilian Le Cain February 2006 Feature Articles One of the more controversial films of 2005, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas discusses the merits of his film.
Being Michael Brynntrup Maximilian Le Cain July 2005 Experimental Cinema German filmmaker Michael Brynntrup is the subject of his films. Le Cain dissects Brynntrup's self-portrait magnum opus E.C.G. Expositus: The Broadcast and the Artistic Media.
Support Your Local Filmmaker: Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision by Brad Stevens Maximilian Le Cain February 2005 Book Reviews The '90s was an extraordinary decade for the cinema. As the elephantine decadence of the mainstream increased in grossness, a dizzying constellation of alternatives seemed to spring into existence all over the ...
Free, Radical: The 49th Cork Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain February 2005 Festival Reports October 10–17, 2004 Like any substantial film festival, the Cork program presents an imposingly dense block of cinema out of which each viewer must carve his or her own micro-festival defined by the exi...
Love in Flight: François Truffaut’s La Peau Douce Maximilian Le Cain October 2004 Feature Articles To mark the 20th anniversary of Truffaut's death, we present this re-appraisal of one of his finest and most underrated films.
Before the Revolution: Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers Maximilian Le Cain July 2004 Feature Articles This misunderstood film is not a nostalgic reconstruction of May '68 but a maturing cinephile's reverie on Utopian Possibility.
