Category Archives: Film
“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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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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When Françoise Hardy Met Yves Montand
Françoise Hardy remembers her encounter with Yves Montand on the set of Grand Prix, John Frankeimer’s tribute to car racing. Read More
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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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