Miniatures in Motion
Ehsan KhoshbakhtA look at Stan Brakhage’s Persian Series in relation to Iranian art.
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"Something's Rotten in the State of Denmark": Motherland, Occupation and Resistance in "Lumière d’été"
Ehsan KhoshbakhtA look at Jean Grémillon’s 1943 masterpiece: its story, reception, and allegories of nation and society.
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2012 #4
Ehsan KhoshbakhtOur last report from the festival of ritrovato—the festival of “discovery.”
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2012 #3
Ehsan KhoshbakhtMore from the current center of cinephilia in Italy: Walsh, Polanski, Feuillade, Mizoguchi and more.
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2012 #2
Ehsan KhoshbakhtFrom a festival of old films restored and rediscovered, works by Raoul Walsh, Ivan Pyr’ev, Jean Grémillon and Jacques Demy.
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Il Cinema Ritrovato 2012 #1
Ehsan KhoshbakhtOur introductory first report from Il Cinema Ritrovata 2012.
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The Matter of Design
Ehsan KhoshbakhtVincente Minnelli’s films are like full-color X-ray photography of the inner universe of his characters.
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Images of the day. From Sketch to the Screen: "Hôtel du Nord" (1938)
Ehsan KhoshbakhtAbove: Alexandre Trauner's sketch for Canal Saint-Martin and Hotel (second building from right). Besides classical Hollywood, one of the other periods of film history in which studio production design
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Images of the day. From Sketch to the Screen: Vincente Minnelli's "Bells Are Ringing"
Ehsan KhoshbakhtFilm architecture is created in film studios, places on the fringe of reality. Anything that is built is usually only present in part, and made of impermanent materials. Perhaps it should be called cineplastique
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Images of the Day. Let me die in my footsteps: "J'accuse!"
Ehsan KhoshbakhtFrom Abel Gance's J'accuse! (1919); cinematography by Marc Bujard, Léonce-Henri Burel, and Maurice Forester.