A Cinematic Colossus: Interview with ‘The Flower’ Director Mariano Llinás
Pablo Staricco Cadenazzi Interviews Argentinian Director Mariano Llinás About ‘The Flower’
An Interview with ‘Thelma’ Director Joachim Trier
Sean Patrick Interviews Norwegian Director Joachim Trier
War and Domestic Violence in Fritz Lang’s ‘Human Desire’
“‘Human Desire’ points a hopeful, if naïve, way forward for men returning home from war.”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Kate Saccone on Lotte Reiniger’s ‘The Adventures of Prince Achmed’
“As the artist who painstakingly moved her hand-cut figures frame-by-frame, Reiniger’s presence is impossible to ignore while watching her films.”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Jeremy Carr on Jean Vigo’s ‘L’Atalante’
“‘L’Atalante’ is a movie defined by it moments, images and emotive strength, not its ostensible plot.”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Jeremy Carr on François Truffaut’s ‘Shoot the Piano Player’
“While Truffaut’s ‘Day for Night’ (1973) is his most pronounced and profound love letter to the moviemaking process, ‘Shoot the Piano Player’ is an exuberant tribute to the end result.”
‘Modern Times’: Charlie Chaplin Finds Freedom in the Age of Industry
It was a whirlwind, worldwide promotional tour for City Lights (1931) that brought Charlie Chaplin up close and personal with the global economic and political turmoil that would in large part inform his follow-up feature, Modern Times (1936). Chaplin, who knew poverty and hunger first-hand, having endured both […]
The Moreau Files: ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’
“Celestine is a difficult role in that it relies on a careful balance between sex appeal and misplaced indignation. While Moreau’s Celestine uses her sex as a means to raise her social place early in the film, her priorities seemingly shift as she uses her body in order to expose a murderer and rapist (or so she believes).”