Author Rolland Man

Realism in cinema seems to me today both boring and insufficient. Nikos Koundouros “This picture has won awards at both Berlin and Salonika for best director and best film, but ordinary viewers may wonder why...

As persistent echoes that afar consort In dim and intense accord Colossal as the dark and as the glow, Scents, hues and sounds agree. – Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondances” “A totally dead silence, a s...

“If I were an architect and I had to build a monument to the cinema, I would place a statue of Julien Duvivier above the entrance”. These are the words of none other than Jean Renoir paying tribute to his colle...

In his book In Praise of Shadows Junichiro Tanizaki identified in 1933 the attraction to shadows as one principle of Japanese aesthetics: “We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clingi...

There seems to be a curious near-unanimity among critics and historians of cinema that attributes the paternity of Desire (1936) to its producer, Ernst Lubitsch, rather than to its credited director, Frank Borz...

By Ermanno Olmi’s own admission, I fidanzati (The Engagement), his third feature, is a pivotal work in his career. His first feature, Il tempo si è fermato (Time Stood Still, 1959) had been accused by Italian c...