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Read Instead…in Print
When François Truffaut talks about his films, he makes you present to their making. In light of this, his films become even more special. Because Truffaut lived through films and for making films. The book Truffaut on Cinema is an artistic autobiography, gathering the interviews of the filmmaker presented chronologically by film. Read More
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“Impossible Not to Think of Her”: Catherine Deneuve in Mississippi Mermaid
Catherine Deneuve’s Marion Vergano is a boy, a hoodlum who’d been through hard times, an orphan, a prostitute, accomplice to murder and attempts murder. She is streetwise, cynical, an usurper. Yet, she is is not really bad. Read More
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“The Creativity and Curiosity Are Already There in Most of Us”: Interview with Artist and Illustrator Øyvind Torseter
Illustration from the book “Mulegutten” (The Heartless Troll), Øyvind Torseter. Ink drawing, colouring in acrylic paint. Mulegutten wakes up one day and discovers a mysterious hole in his apartment. It moves and seems to have a mind and … Read More
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Read Instead…in Print
There is just one such moment in an artist’s life and Oliver Stone builds that moment up with all the personal fervor, rawness and freedom he has shown in his movies. Chasing the Light is the story up until that brief year of 1986, the year when Salvador hit theaters and Platoon soon followed, when he was the unknown, the elusive, the unexpected. Read More
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April Newsletter: Helen Levitt’s Streets, Film Endings, and Rhona Mitra
In this month’s newsletter: Helen Levitt’s streets, film endings, and Agave Road Hats. Read More
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