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“I want my work to feel human”: In conversation with designer Juan Miguel Marin

Poster design by La Moutique for “El otro Tom”, directed by Rodrigo Plá and Laura Santullo”   Juan Miguel Marin’s extended remit of graphic design, better known as La Moutique, includes film posters, film titles and opening sequences, album art, … Read More

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January Newsletter: Bird, The Tennis Court & Ruthie’s Table 4

    Photos: Classiq Journal     “You have to see it to be it.” Billie Jean King     Viewing Cast Out with Love, a wonderful, poetic short visual story written by Lauren Williams, and directed by Greg Dennis, … Read More

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“I am still learning, which keeps it fresh”: Interview with film still photographer JoJo Whilden

Christian Bale in “The Fighter”, 2010. Paramount Pictures. Photo by JoJo Whilden.   Watching a film, the moving picture, you can travel the world, its diversity and richness. You can also travel the whole spectrum of emotions. At the same … Read More

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Why Bertrand Tavernier chose Romy as his first central female protagonist…, and Glasgow as location for his only film set in the future

Romy Schneider and Harvey Keitel in “Death Watch”, 1980, Gaumont International   I have watched Bertrand Tavernier’s films and I have read his book, Bertrand Tavernier’s Amis Américains: Entretiens avec les grands auteurs d’Hollywood, where he talks about so many … Read More

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“We are the postmen of the past who leave letters to those of the future”: In conversation with Ana Gurduza

Photo courtesy of Ana Gurduza   To be amazed is still possible. Gather round, it’s time for a story. A story that, in the spirit of the approaching holidays, flickers even brighter. Ana Gurduza makes poetry… with her hands. With … Read More

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