Category Archives: Read instead…in print

Read instead…in print #40: Noriko Smiling

  Looking close at one single film, Late Spring, Adam Mars-Jones draws a compelling, passionate and rigorous study that considers the film’s aesthetic and technical qualities and, most importantly, new ideas and interpretations different than any other Western and westernised … Read More →

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Read instead…in print #39: Lubitsch Can’t Wait

  They don’t make comedies like they used to. A cliché? Maybe. But it also just happens to be the plain truth. And they have never made comedies like Ernst Lubitsch did. His comedies make us laugh by not showing, … Read More →

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Read instead…in print #38: Conversations at the AFI with the Great Moviemakers

  Reading the series of talks compiled in Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers, with directors, writers, actors, cameramen, composers, editors, feels like attending the seminars yourself. More than that, these conversations, preserved and presented here … Read More →

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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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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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