Strange Times, My Dear: Mohammad Rasoulof on Goodbye
Goodbye, showing Thursday, March 22 and Saturday, March 24 as part of this year’s New Directors/New Films festival, is a film of reflections, mirrors, and sideward glances. The law student, Noora...
View ArticleWe Survive Among Elements of Our Own Demise: Ben Rivers on Two Years at Sea
We the People, declared the title of Ben Rivers’ 2004 short film, predicting the subjects of movies to come. Black-and-white views of an empty, narrow street between buildings; mob cries alternating...
View ArticleThe Remembered Film: Marcelo Felix on Eden’s Ark
And while we use images to remember what there is, And we keep the images we’ve created, Maybe what’s left will come and join us. How many readers know Fährmann Maria? It’s an early German sound film...
View ArticleAlways Traveling in Music: Jards
Image courtesy of Eryk Rocha. The old black man moves slowly. He’s seen a lot, you can tell, and you don’t need words to know it. The years, months, and days are folded into each of his wrinkles,...
View ArticleTurns in a Path: Abbas Kiarostami on Like Someone in Love
Abbas Kiarostami on the of Like Someone in Love. Image courtesy of IFC Films. This interview was held at this year’s São Paulo International Film Festival. The Iranian filmmaker Adel Yaraghi, whose...
View ArticleStirring Still: Andrés Di Tella on Claudio Caldini and Hachazos
Claudio Caldini in a scene from Andrés Di Tella’s Hachazos (2011) This interview with Andrés Di Tella was conducted during a retrospective of Di Tella’s films at last year’s edition of the Brazilian...
View ArticleBurning Barriers: Francis Alÿs’ REEL-UNREEL
image courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery I’ve read many thoughtful discussions of whether Zero Dark Thirty, the new Hollywood depiction of the United States government’s hunt for Osama bin Laden,...
View ArticlePersonal Records: Heinz Emigholz on Perret in France and Algeria
Algiers, from Perret in France and Algeria (2012) The modernist architect Auguste Perret was born in 1874 and died in 1954. He built houses, studios, churches, and government buildings both in France...
View ArticleThe Secret of a Happy Home: David Gatten on The Extravagant Shadows
The idea is one of contingency. Everybody must feel that something has been missed, because electing one course of life precludes any other. But what in my case has been missed? It was an October...
View ArticleLost and Found: John Torres Discusses Lukas the Strange
“Lukas, in the middle of the film, the actress will pay a visit. You’ll fall in love with her. And you’ll understand your father. I’ll become your memory. I haven’t shown you the middle yet.” The...
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