Category Archives: Film

Solveig Dommartin is Wearing Yohji Yamamoto in “Until the End of the World”

Solveig Dommartin in ”Bis ans Ende der Welt”, 1991 | Argos Films. Road Movie Filmproduktion   Until the End of the World begins with a grim end-time scenario. A nuclear satellite threatens to crash through the ozone layer and wipe … Read More

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Read Instead…in Print

Read instead…in print #21: J’ai connu une belle époque, Jacques Deray Read More

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March Newsletter: Shadow City, Jacques Deray’s Polars and a Rogue Adventure as Life

In this month’s newsletter: Shadow City, Deray’s Polars and a Rogue Adventure as Life. Read More

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Nino Cerruti and Cinema

The union between the world of cinema and Nino Cerruti began in the late 1960s. His name appears in the credits of tens of films, dressing memorable characters from both Hollywood and the French cinema, from Jean-Paul Belmondo in Borsalino and Alain Delon in Mr. Klein, to Michael Douglas in Wall Street and Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune. Read More

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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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