YEAR OF THE DRAGON
An uneasy truce of many years between the NYPD and Chinese organised crime is about to end in New York’s... View Article
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THE RISE AND FALL OF JACQUES TATI
After seeing Playtime (1967), François Truffaut wrote to Jacques Tati, “This is the first film about the Europe of 1968,... View Article
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THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE
Buñuel’s final masterwork depicts Fernando Rey as a wealthy hidalgo who, whilst journeying from Seville to Paris, seeks to take... View Article
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MICHAEL CIMINO, UN MIRAGE AMÉRICAIN
The seven films of Michael Cimino, one of the most uncompromising directors of New Hollywood, have left an indelible mark... View Article
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MAURICE
Although the novel Maurice by the British author E.M. Forster was not published until 1979, a year after the author’s... View Article
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FLICKERING GHOSTS OF LOVES GONE BY
André Bonzel’s first film as the sole director is a personal memoir in which old home movies make up a... View Article
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BUÑUEL: A SURREALIST FILMMAKER
What has happened to the reputation of Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), the Spanish master of surrealism? Should we be concerned, when... View Article
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CINÉMA LAIKA
Croatian film director Veljko Vidak recently spent more than a year in Karkkila, documenting step by step how a new... View Article
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A BUNCH OF AMATEURS
If film clubs (for watching films) are sadly starting to be mostly curiosities of past times, then amateur film-making clubs... View Article
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A COOLER CLIMATE
In 1960, James Ivory visited Afghanistan to make a documentary he vaguely conceived as a pendant to a film on... View Article
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