Author Archives: classiq
Read instead…in print #44: Sydney Pollack Collected Interviews
Throughout the years, Three Days of the Condor has become one of my favourite films, a film that works within the thriller genre, but what distances it from tradition is something personal, and the fact that it is deeply … Read More
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August Newsletter: Seven Samurai, Gimme Shelter and a new Persona
Photos: Classiq Journal “There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.” Akira Kurosawa (Something Like an Autobiography) Viewing Seven Samurai, 1954 Akira Kurosawa This will always be the summer … Read More
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Stories from the Golden Pond
“On Golden Pond”, 1982. Universal Pictures On a stormy night, Ethel Thayer drives into the town near where she and her husband, Norman, have a summer lakeside house, gets hold of Charlie, the mailman and his boat (“Oh, Charlie, … Read More
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Read instead…in print #43: Hitchcock & Herrmann, The Friendship and Film Scores that Changed Cinema
Why would anyone consider that Hitchcock did the same type of film over and over again? This idea has always puzzled me, because you only have to listen all the different scores that Bernard Herrmann composed for Hitchcock’s films … Read More
in Film, North by Northwest, Read instead...in print
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Jane B. par Agnès V.
Jane Birkin in “Jane B. par Agnès V.”, 1988, directed by Agnès Varda. Ciné-tamaris The docudrama Jane B. par Agnès V. is a comic portrait of Jane Birkin seen in many forms, across her personal life, professional anecdotes, an … Read More
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