On the week François Truffaut would have turned 80, we look back at the posters for his first film.

Three notes on Wings and William Wellman’s home movies.

In Jacques Feyder’s weird pacifist fantasy, a Dutch town conquers by surrendering, politically and romantically.

Venice! The Biennale! Retrospectives, new films, festival turmoil, art that’s not cinema—all this and more!

Taken together, the two Agneepath films—one from 1990, other other 2012—reveal a world in between, quite literally.

Oh! the mysteries found in a cup of tea. Mysteries by Kobayashi and Ruiz.

An interview with Jay Shaw about his striking new Mondo poster for Ben Wheatley’s Kill List.

Two Italian metaphysical thrillers blur reality and fantasy and waft around the edges of the giallo style.

An amazing publicity still of William Wellman’s Depression-era masterpiece, Heroes for Sale.