Category Archives: Film
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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August Newsletter: Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em cry, make ‘em wait, and Silkwood
Photos: Classiq Journal “The authors of genuine children’s literature, then, are only rarely and indirectly educators… Jules Verne is perhaps the only one. They are poets whose imagination is privileged to remain on the dream wavelength … Read More
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“He photographed what he saw in his mind’s eye”: David Lean, Venice, and Summertime
Photo: Katharine Hepburn and Gaetano Autiero in “Summertime”, 1955, directed by David Lean. United Artists Has anyone captured Venice at first sight better in film, so vivid, so alive, so real, so anew, than David Lean in Summertime? Venice … Read More
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Letter to my friends to learn how to make films together, by Jean-Luc Godard
Photo: Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in “Pierrot le Fou”, 1965, directed by Jean-Luc Godard Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC) “I play You play We play At cinema You think there are Rules for the game Because you … Read More
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July newsletter: Leigh Fermor’s Mani, Jules Dassin’s Athens, and Moondance
“All at once a further wonder came to increase our well-being: a cool breath of wind. This is one of the seldom-failing blessings of midsummer in the Peloponnese.” Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese … Read More
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