Author Inge Fossen

Alexandre Christophe Dupont is one of the most elusive major figures in contemporary cinema. This is quite fitting, given the slippery, intoxicating effervescence of his work. Far better known by his nom de plu...

Among European filmmakers of the highest order, only Federico Fellini has had an identification with travel and the road as metaphors for life remotely as strong as Wim Wenders. The road movie is, of course, mo...

How does one avoid sounding sexist when discussing a great female artist like Agnès Varda and her work against the swirlingly relativistic backdrop of current gender theory? It seems moronic to ignore her gende...

Where does one begin a piece on Russell Crowe, Oceania’s most precocious and visible film export after Nicole Kidman? Which scene or what image first “made” him and encapsulated his particular qualities? The ma...

The legendary collaboration with radical poet and supremely gifted scenarist Jacques Prévert, who was associated with the broad Leftist Popular Front coalition in the decade leading up to the abject betrayal of...

A Woman Under the Influence is a rarity. It manages to be both an incisive commentary on sexual politics, and one of the great heterosexual love stories of modern American film, independent or otherwise. The fi...