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Read Instead…in Print
Satyajit Ray wrote his own dialogue (scored his films and often designed their publicity materials as well), but his films rose above the words, as he believed a film should be conveyed in images as much as possible. Satyajit Ray’s films are like that, striking this incredible balance between sound and image and containing moments of purely visual significance. Read More
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February Newsletter: Gone to Timbuktu, Yamamoto and The ‘59 Sound
The short films that we love more than feature films, the oral history of the recording of a masterpiece and the travel writes who sits down with writers, filmmakers and photographers to explore the art of travel and the place between Chatwin’s two Timbuktus. Read More
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Closer: Marie Trintignant in Claude Chabrol’s “Betty”
Betty gets away with her true nature. She is untamed. Her husband and her mother-in-law try to tame her, but they don’t succeed. Chabrol doesn’t try, he lets her be. Is she the victim of what Laure calls the “dead weight of society” or a monstrous and unworthy wife and mother? Chabrol doesn’t answer. Instead, he makes the viewer look a little closer and more indulgent, through her own eyes, at Betty. Read More
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Read Instead… in Print
Quentin Tarantino is a filmmaker in complete control of his art, yet when he writes about his favourite films, he does it without the pretentiousness of the deep knowledge he masters. Cinema Speculation is about his personal choices. In this in this fake, politically correct, pretentious medium that cinema and society are struggling in at the moment, Tarantino’s book is a breath of fresh air. Read More
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Cate Blanchett Is the Lead, but Nina Hoss Is the First Violin in Tár
In Tár, Nina Hoss plays Sharon, Lydia Tár’s partner. They share both a personal and a professional life together. Sharon is the concertmaster in the Berlin orchestra conducted by Tár (Cate Blanchett). Behind a powerful woman, there is a more powerful woman. Read More
