“No matter how severe a human confrontation you are portraying, it immediately becomes mild the instant that even a little green enters into it.”
Nagisa Oshima | Feb 5
Brigitte Berg offers a rare glimpse into the early career of an avant-garde filmmaker who defied boundaries, blending science and art with unmatched originality.
Brigitte Berg | Jan 22
An excerpt from "Thousands of Mirrors," cult critic Ian Penman's kaleidoscopic study of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Ian Penman | Jun 22, 2023
Unlike the provocative grand gesture more common in late-20th-century art, Cornell’s work rewards, and almost commands, the stillness of solitary reflection.
Catherine Corman | Feb 24, 2023
“’Apocalypse Now’ is an exceptional film. It is also an average American film of the post-Vietnam era.”
Serge Daney | Sep 1, 2022
Artist and writer Justin Beal explores the way in which a literary and cinematic archetype has influenced the cultural role of the modern architect.
Justin Beal | Oct 19, 2021
Against the grim background of the Covid-19 catastrophe, there is some small cause for hope in the current renewal of enthusiasm for cycling.
Bruce Bennett | Jun 15, 2020
A harbinger of the ways in which modern life would become dominated by mechanical motion, the bicycle was a fitting subject for the first motion picture.
Bruce Bennett | Feb 13, 2020
