Author Jeremi Szaniawski

“Forever and ever (and ever)” since its release, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) has generated an uncanny amount of literature, by critics and fans alike. The critical response, following initially lukewar...

Much like Alfred Hitchcock with Psycho (1960), Stanley Kubrick sought, with The Shining (1980), to conduct an experiment in cinematic fear. While neither of the films can be reduced to it, this experimental dim...

In 1987, when his book, which serves as one of the first efforts in English to reassess and appraise the films and legacy of Roberto Rossellini (1987), was first released, Peter Brunette pointed to the dearth o...

Stanley Kubrick belongs to the category of select filmmakers to have elicited a massive body of critical work as well as gained a cult following among fans and mainstream audiences. In his expert study of Jewis...

“We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?” Paul Thomas Anderson Stanley Kubrick (1927-1999) passed away twenty years ago – on March 7, 1999 – while in the pr...

Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani redefine the limits of cinematic grammar, and, further, of the cinematic body – a fascinating two-headed creature, with at its pulsating heart a manifest drive to pierce through ...

Behind the success-story of filmmaking couple Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani is that of producer Ève Commenge. These three French expatriates have developed a very close and organic collaboration in Belgium to...

This interview was conducted in person by Pip Chodorov, with additional questions by Jeremi Szaniawski, at the Cannes Grand Hotel, 18 May 2018. It was edited and translated from French by Jeremi Szaniawski. • ...

Balabanov’s Law: Cargo 200 (Aleksei Balabanov, 2007) Throughout his short but prolific career, Aleksei Balabanov (1959-2013) produced an oeuvre – most famously his low-budget cult hit Brat (Brother, 1997) – th...

Before Empire Come: Mother and Son (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1997) The story of a mother slowly dying while in the care of her son, Mat i syn (Mother and Son, 1997) was lauded worldwide at the time of its release – ...

Albert Serra’s recent La Mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV, 2016), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as the ailing king, has been rightly hailed a masterpiece. Its central preoccupation with aging and/or dying...