The Beginning of History: "Class Relations"
Ted FendtA new translation of writer-critic Louis Seguin’s 1984 article on Straub-Huillet’s Class Relations.
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Towards A Pure Fiction: Cecil B. DeMille
Luc MoulletCritic and filmmaker Luc Moullet on Cecil B. DeMille and The Road to Yesterday, one of the box office king’s most audacious undertakings.
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Harry Langdon or The Malady of Sleep
Noah TeichnerThis translation of a 1929 piece on Langdon is an exhilarating exercise in a deliriously subjective, free-form style of poetic film writing.
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Waiting for the Whole Sky All Diamonds
Boris NelepoManoel de Oliveira’s new film, Gebo and the Shadow, is a work of ultimate compassion and benevolence.
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Interview with Jean Eustache
Ted FendtFirst ever English translation of a remarkable interview with Jean Eustache for the La Revue du Cinéma, May 1971.
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Raúl Ruiz on "La noche de enfrente", François Margolin on Raúl Ruiz
NotebookA statement by Ruiz on his “last movie,” La noche de enfrente, and a moving article about Ruiz written by the film’s producer.
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Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema “Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt”
NotebookAn essay by Nicole Brenez on maverick filmmaker-critic Jean Epstein.
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Rockefeller's Melancholy
Luc MoulletCritic-filmmaker Luc Moullet pens a provocative, previously unpublished take on the difference between the B&W and color work of Antonioni.
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The Mask and the Role of God
Luc MoulletA previously unpublished article by French New Wave critic and filmmaker Luc Moullet on the cinema of Eric Rohmer.
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The Bravura Sequence
Luc MoulletCritic and filmmaker Luc Moullet looks at the tremendous final sequences of two King Vidor films.
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Politics and Aesthetics in the Straubs’ Films
Ted FendtJacques Rancière, Philippe Lafosse and the public in conversation about Straub-Huillet after a screening of their films.
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Cosmic Leveling: Raúl Ruiz's "Brise-glace"
Luc MoulletCritic and filmmaker Luc Moullet looks at Raúl Ruiz’s 1987 short Brise-glace, which “belongs to the extraordinary.”