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11 Kas ARTHOUSE AND INTROSPECTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH JACQUELINE LENTZOU

Posted at 11:47h in English

by Scout Tafoya In just seven short films — including the recently lauded “Fox” (2016), “Hiwa” (2017), and “Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018)” — Jacqueline Lentzou has already made her aesthetic concerns and immutable talent quite clear. She finds, with a curious and empathetic camera, moments of...

05 Kas LOSING GROUND: LUCRECIA MARTEL’S ZAMA

Posted at 11:50h in English

by Tanner Tafelski Nine long years have elapsed since the release of The Headless Woman (2008), Lucrecia Martel’s last feature film. Since then, she prepared and failed to get a science-fiction project launched, endured a drawn out two-month production, and oversaw an extensive edit on Zama, an adaptation of Antonio...

03 Kas KUNDURA CINEMA CELEBRATES THE UNESCO WORLD DAY OF AUDIOVISUAL HERITAGE!

Posted at 10:56h in English

The Brilliant Biograph is now online! Join for free to watch! Running parallel to the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage’s "Your Window to the World" theme, “The Brilliant Biograph” transports viewers back to around 1900 and let them feel the enthusiasm of early cinema when cities...

20 Eki CINEMA’S FIRST EPIDEMIC: FROM CONTAGIOUS TWITCHING TO CONVULSIVE LAUGHTER

Posted at 11:16h in English

By Maggie HennefeldThere was no funnier sight gag in early cinema than the catastrophe of epidemic contagion. In The Yawner (1907), a man’s involuntary yawning transmits irresistibly to his housekeeper, a squadron of military soldiers, day drinkers at a café, a police officer, and an inanimate portrait...

19 Eki AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE SILENT FILM INDUSTRY

Posted at 15:00h in English

In the first decades of the twentieth century, five African-American women filmmakers helped to establish the US cinema industry and to better the representation of African-Americans on film. ...

19 Eki WHY SOME LIKE IT HOT IS THE GREATEST COMEDY EVER MADE

Posted at 14:45h in English

by Nicholas Barber In 1958, Tony Curtis was at a Hollywood party when Billy Wilder took him aside. Wilder was planning a film about two musicians who dress up as women to join an all-girl band, and he asked Curtis to play one of the musicians....

16 Eki FILMATIQUE: INTERVIEW WITH PRANTIK NARAYAN BASU

Posted at 10:06h in English

Intervıew by Rıtıka Bıswas Guest Curator, Fılmatıque Prantik Narayan Basu is an Indian screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and film director. Having studied Film Directing at the Film and Television Institute of India, his short film Sakhisona premiered at BFI London, Mumbai, and Rotterdam, where it won the...

14 Eki ‘PANDORA’S BOX WITH THE LID OFF!’: LULU’S MISADVENTURES IN LONDON

Posted at 17:36h in English

by Pamela Hutchinson This is an extended version of a paper that I gave at the British Silent Film Festival Symposium at King’s College London on 7 April 2017. My book on Pandora’s Box (1929) is forthcoming from BFI Palgrave.W. Pabst’s Die Büchse der Pandora...

13 Eki PARIS BELONGS TO US: NOTHING TOOK PLACE BUT THE PLACE

Posted at 15:42h in English

by Luc Sante Paris Belongs to Us, Jacques Rivette’s first feature, was written in 1957 and shot from July to November 1958. Had it been released in a timely fashion, it would have been one of the very first films of the French New Wave, appearing after...

05 Eki WHERE TO BEGIN WITH EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS

Posted at 15:16h in English

Movies inspire a lot of passion, but the back catalogue of film history can be daunting. For every fan who’s obsessed with an actor, director or sub-genre, there’s another struggling to know where to start. Sometimes all it takes is the right recommendation to set you on your...