Category Archives: Film

17 September 2025

Robert Redford had the confidence to trust the audience and just be

Photo: Robert Redford in “All the President’s Men”, 1976. Wildwood Enterprises   Robert Redford was promoting his politically-charged film The Candidate in 1972 when Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two investigative reporters from The Washington Post, broke out the … Read More →

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11 September 2025

September Newsletter: Made in Milan, A Hell of a Good Life, and Outlaw Blues

    Photos: Classiq Journal     ”I think of myself as someone who is a beginner, not as someone who has already said a lot.” Giorgio Armani, Made in Milan       Viewing Fatto a Milano (Made in … Read More →

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4 September 2025

Read instead…in print #37: Isabelle Huppert par Carole Bellaïche

  It was 1993 when photographer Carole Bellaïche met Isabelle Huppert for the first time. She was on a Cahiers du Cinéma assignment and she travelled to Lausanne, where Huppert was rehearsing for the play Orlando, directed by Bob Wilson. … Read More →

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31 August 2025

Carole Lombard’s spectacular repartee in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”

Photo: Carole Lombard in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”, 1941. RKO   Carole Lombard had tomboyish qualities, flair for comedy and could hold up her glamour all at the same time like no other actress. As a twelve-year-old, she appeared in … Read More →

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21 August 2025

Read instead…in print #36. North by Northwest: The Man Who Had Too Much

  If we ever needed a reassurance about why we love cinema in general and Alfred Hitchcock in particular, then Hitchcock’s North by Northwest: The Man Who Had Too Much, by James Stratton, spells that out. North by Northwest “sparkles … Read More →

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