Aren’t these great? Designs by Macha Makeïeff and Paper ! Tiger ! A new restoration of MON ONCLE premieres in Cannes today, and the Tati series hits French theaters later this summer.
just finished watching the trilogy Angela’s Diaries: Two Filmmakers (2018-2025) by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi...what an incredible way to close their career as a couple..."archive as a work, work as an archive"
Shiguehiko Hasumi and Yoshida Kiju on the start of Yoshida's film career
I can't believe I haven't seen this before - footage of Orson Welles' 1936 all-Black staging of Macbeth, from the WPA newsreel We Work Again
Continued the tradition of looking at painting on my birthday - this time at the Legion of Honor in SF, where James Stewart trails Kim Novak in Vertigo
A Chaplin impersonator in Naruse's Husband and Wife (1953)
Very excited to be speaking with Marta Mateus about António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro and their beautiful Trás-os-Montes (1976) tonight, 7PM at @bampfa.bsky.social bampfa.org/event/tras-o...
Trás-os-Montes
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Still impressed by this series of posters for a 2018 Peter Watkins retrospective presented by Wolf Kino in Berlin.
Actor Ahmed Ahmedpoor, known for his role as Mohamed Reza Nematzadeh in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House (1987), passed away last Thursday at the age of 46. ❤️
Brenez: "John Ford is certainly the inventor of the form, when at the end of Fort Apache (1948), we learn that the entire story we have witnessed exists in order to criticize a painting exhibited in Washington"
footage of the aftermath of the 1982 bombing of Lebanon, edited by Carolee Schneemann in 1983/2006
Claire Simon, Marie-Claude Treilhou, and Alain Guiraudie in Treilhou's Un petit cas de conscience (2002)
New in our Screening Room: Adrian Martin's recorded introduction to Raúl Ruiz’s City of Pirates (1983), initially presented in the context of our Serge Daney programme at ICA London. → sabzian.be/screening-room/la-ville-des-pirates-introduction
Rereading The American Cinema for the first time in maybe 8 years and am once again asking for a collected edition of Sarris's writing from Library of America
Extremely grateful to Miguel and the editors at Taipai for publishing this Spanish translation of my essay on Godard's posthumous films
Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Eduard Tisse, and Eisenstein
Georgia Hale recounts Josef von Sternberg's reaction to hearing that Chaplin loved The Salvation Hunters
In 1963, the editors at Cahiers du cinema asked some of their contributors to list the top ten American films of the sound era. Here are some of the ballots
I really want to go to this but the screening starts at 10PM and goes until 2 in the morning....
Siddhant Adlakha@siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · last yr.Great news: after 3 years, Film Heritage Foundation has restored Sholay, from a combo of original 35mm negatives found in Mumbai (for reference; too damaged to use) and inter+ves and colour reversal intermediates found in Mumbai and London—w/ original ending. Premieres Italy 6/27
Coming soon at the ICA in London (no details yet): In Focus: Serge Daney (29 August–4 September), a ten-film programme exploring the legacy of the influential critic in collaboration with @sabzian.bsky.social
Back on Bluesky to heap praise on @dcairns.bsky.social 's great essay on Midnight for Criterion www.criterion.com/current/post...
Midnight: The Game of Love
Mitchell Leisen’s marvelously chic and brilliantly constructed screwball classic revolves around a heroine who flounders through a succession of complications but always manages to come out ahead.
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The Cinémathèque française is currently running a retrospective of John Stahl. I didn't realize he had such an extensive silent career, almost none of which appears to be available online. Does anyone know about these? Are they as good as his sound films?
Footage of the UN Palestinian refugee camps in 1949, taken by the Quaker society the American Friends Service Committee