The hottest ticket in town: the 40th Il Cinema Ritrovato Stefan Solomon July 2026 Festival Reports Festivals, like films, begin life before they officially open. For Il Cinema Ritrovato, the trickle of information about the programme becomes something of a torrent in the early days of June, when the schedule...
Of Mechanisms and Machines: Brazil’s New New Cinema (Issue 89, December 2018) Stefan Solomon October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 89, December 2018. Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. To think of Brazil today is to think foremost of a country in a state of crisis, or indeed ...
Of Mechanisms and Machines: Brazil’s New New Cinema Stefan Solomon December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. To think of Brazil today is to think foremost of a country in a state of crisis, or indeed of a country that has been in a state of perpetual crisis since at le...
The Imitation Game: Jean Eustache’s My Little Loves Stefan Solomon October 2018 The Second Generation: French Cinema After the New Wave “I read a book about this guy’s high school years. He said his French professor really made him sick. When he lectured about passion in the works of Racine and Corneille, he said the same things year after year...
Fruit of Paradise (Věra Chytilová, 1969) Stefan Solomon June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Following on from what is by far her best-known film, Sedmikrásky (Daisies, 1966), Věra Chytilová embarked on a new project, the production of which would be shaped by internal and external forces alike: on the...
“Materials Have Memories”: An Interview with Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn (Distruktur) Stefan Solomon July 2016 Feature Articles Brazilian filmmaking duo Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn began working together in 1999 in Porto Alegre, and since 2007 have been based in Berlin, operating under the title “Distruktur”. The two also have some...
Beyond the Frame: The 61st Sydney Film Festival Stefan Solomon October 2014 Festival Reports Towards the end of Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery, a carpenter working in the eponymous London institution hesitantly holds forth on the ins and outs of his métier – carving picture frames from ebony. Mor...
