When I was approximately eleven years old and performing the Saturday afternoon ritual of attending the local movie theatre, Flaherty’s Man of Aran unrolled upon the screen and I was suddenly aware of...

She could collect rocks and lace. She could be a harpist or a horsewoman. Lots of elegance, of calm blonde hair. Her first feature film, Mon cher sujet, is a film that talks of women without preciousn...

Anne-Marie Miéville has always been notoriously shy about the specific character of her collaboration with Godard. In her later work, the films between Le Livre de Marie (1984) and Après la reconcilia...

Filmoteca Española and Filmoteca de Catalunya celebrate filmmaker and activist Pere portabello with 'Acció Portabella', a series of activities throughout 2026 and 2027.

A boy of about twelve years old on a bicycle. He rides as fast as he can. In sheer desperation, he has just violently robbed two people. The whole world is on his heels and is about to catch up with h...

What is it, in essence, that Fellini doesn’t like? The poverty, the sloppiness, the coarseness, the awkward, almost anonymous pedantry with which I’ve shot the scene. Fine, I agree. It was my first ex...

A year later, when the Germans had lost the war and the concentration camps were liberated, the Allies photographed and filmed the camps, the survivors, and the traces that pointed to the millions mur...

At the foot of the stairs, a woman pulls a mirror out of her stuffed bunny purse and decides to apply a bit more make-up. It’s all quite banal. Why is it, then, that the viewer feels a tug at his hear...

The following conversation is an excerpt from the full interview, featured in the revised edition of Persistence of Vision: A Collection of Film Criticism. Edited by Joseph McBride, the book was first...

André Delvaux (1926-2002) is counted among the most important filmmakers in the history of Belgian cinema. Although he started making films relatively late and without a formal education, Delvaux mana...

I would also like to express my affection for Jocelyne. On the strength of her films and the way she has lived her life to date, I consider her one of the bravest, most intelligent and above all frees...

Can it be simply by chance that most films created by women give as much importance to sound, to music, to the timbre of voices recorded or captured unawares, as they do to the image itself? It is as ...

Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.

The cinema fell upon its prey with immense rapacity, and to the moment largely subsists upon the body of its unfortunate victim. But the results are disastrous to both. The alliance is unnatural. Eye ...

In The Secret Agent, the latest film by Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho, the main character leaves the cinema during a screening and steps almost seamlessly into a street party. Marcelo, who ...

“A good story can be told in a few sentences,” it says in the newspaper. In other words, a good story has a core that’s so clear and distinct that it can be summarized concisely without detracting fro...