Category Archives: Film

23 August 2026

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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11 August 2026

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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4 August 2026

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 →

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30 July 2026

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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21 July 2026

July newsletter: Es Taller, Searching for Sugar Man, and California surfing and climbing in the fifties

Photos: Classiq Journal “The choice is yours to make, time is yours to take; some dive into the sea, some toil upon the stone. To live is to fly all low and high, so shake the dust … Read More →

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