Review of the recent exhibition inspired by the correspondences between these two great filmmakers that featured in Barcelona, subsequently in Madrid and destined for Paris in 2007.
The fate of Alfred Hitchcock’s little-seen film about the French Resistance reads like one of his own espionage thrillers. Hitchcock scholar Alain Kerzoncuf tracks through the archives in search of evidence.
The Austrian Film Museum’s excellent DVD of Vertov’s Entuziazm affords the occasion for an insightful essay on the work of this legendary Soviet filmmaker.
A comprehensive overview of the regional and global imperatives that shaped the historically fascinating 1960s avant-garde movement known as the Barcelona School.
An examination of director Rolf de Heer’s unique collaboration with the Yolngu people of Ramingining of Northern Australia on Ten Canoes and the behind-the-scenes documentary Balanda and the Bark Canoes.
A discussion of Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel in relation to the broader context of the filmmaker’s œuvre and his obsession with time.
“Nothing tests the resources of cinema like a storm at sea.” So argues Tim Cawkwell who discusses a number of films, including an in-depth analysis of the mastery of director John Ford’s and cinematographer Greg Toland’s burial-at-sea episode in The Long Voyage Home.
