Nautilus

3 min. di lettura

This is part one of a three-part series about the movie industry’s switch to digital cameras and what is lost, and gained, in the process. Part two runs tomorrow; part three runs on Friday. Cinema is a blend of art and technology, working together t

Film Comment

2 min. di lettura

IN MY EARLIEST DAYS AT THE MAGAZINE, some of the greatest lessons I learned came during the editorial process for essays by Kent Jones. When Kent wrote something for an issue, it was an event, an opportunity to discover films and filmmakers through e

Film Comment

13 min. di lettura

“I have the feeling that when you meet someone, you’re meeting yourself,” says a character in Angela Schanelec’s 2010 film Orly, a fiction about chance encounters at the titular Paris airport. This idea would explain a lot about the work of the Germa

Amateur Photographer

1 min. di lettura

In the mid 1970s I was a student at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art studying Photography, Film and Television Production. I scripted and storyboarded a short film which never quite got made, but is always ‘on the back-burner' so there's still hope

Chicago Tribune

3 min. di lettura

CHICAGO - Barry Jenkins, an Oscar winning director and producer, said the film left him speechless. The award-winning actress Viola Davis shared it on her Instagram page with the comment: "love, love, love this!" The grainy black-and-white clip is si

Digital Camera World

2 min. di lettura

KEITH BERNSTEIN Film & TV stills photographer www.keithbernstein.co.uk How did you get into shooting stills for films and TV shows? I got very down about doing reportage after working in Somalia in 1994. Newspaper budgets were beginning to be cut. I

ArtAsiaPacific

10 min. di lettura

How do we communicate without words? How do we speak without saying? How can language be transmitted, or translated, through sound and movement? Since 2012, Angelica Mesiti has explored the varieties and potentials of nonverbal communication in commu

Film Comment

5 min. di lettura

THESE AREN’T IDEAL TIMES FOR TREADING THE SOFT SOIL of cinematic hybridity. It’s become harder to justify flights of factual indeterminacy. Questions that might have been stimulating as rhetoric or theory—what is truth? does the camera only lie? are

Little White Lies

2 min. di lettura

Bijou Karman (cover) is an artist and illustrator from Los Angeles. Unique faces, strong women, nostalgia, flora, and the California landscape all inspire her work. The styles of the early 1970s figure heavily into Bijou’s repertoire, so If Beale Str

Little White Lies

2 min. di lettura

Tavan Maneetapho (cover) is an illustrator and comic book artist based in Brighton, UK. She says of her own style: “The characters in my universe are usually the misfits in society – the daydreamer, the loner, the one that laughs just a little too lo

The Atlantic

5 min. di lettura

For theatergoers, the all but obsolete musical overture is a bridge between real life and the world they’re about to enter.

The Paris Review

5 min. di lettura

In The Third Hotel, Laura van den Berg’s phantasmagoric fourth book, a recently widowed woman named Clare travels alone to Havana to attend the Festival of New Latin American Cinema. There, she sees her deceased husband Richard and everything she kne

Los Angeles Times

7 min. di lettura

In the final days of 2018, as Stacy L. Smith and her pioneering team of researchers at USC Annenberg were putting the final touches on one of the most comprehensive and intersectional reports on inclusion in Hollywood to date, a historic finding in t

NPR

1 min. di lettura

Roma director Alfonso Cuarón handpicked artists to make music inspired by the characters from his Oscar-nominated film. The results are stunning.

Film Comment

10 min. di lettura

In 2016, the ghetto film school, a nonprofit film education organization that runs programming for teens in New York, Los Angeles, and London, debuted the first of several short films made through a collaboration with the Frick Collection in New York

Futurity

3 min. di lettura

Movie preferences are very idiosyncratic, and rarely line up with the preferences of others or the evaluations of movie critics, new research suggests. Moreover, these preferences don’t match the demographic groups movie studios use to pitch and mark

Literary Hub

4 min. di lettura

Scholars have tried to pin down the effects of the invention of film on the novel for decades. One of the complications is that certain literary techniques that may strike us as cinematic—like cutting between two visual images or moving between two l

Palm Beach Illustrated

1 min. di lettura

Since its inception, film has been a marriage of art and commerce. With the rise of theatergoing came the need to attract audiences—and thus the movie poster was born. Beginning July 12, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach will explore this c

Los Angeles Times

5 min. di lettura

In "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," the upcoming sixth installment of Paramount's action franchise, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) travels to Paris where he engages in vehicular mayhem on the city's narrow streets, dangles from the ceiling of the Grand Pala

The Millions

10 min. di lettura

The function of documentary—at least when I make one—is to augment our vision, understanding, and knowledge of the real world. The post An American in Afghanistan: The Millions Interviews James Longley appeared first on The Millions.

Global Voices

3 min. di lettura

Tanzania is blessed with countless stories and young people who are craving to tell them. But they need their compatriots' support in order to succeed.

Film Comment

2 min. di lettura

Making Images Move: Handmade Cinema and the Other Arts By Gregory Zinman, University of California Press, $45 THE ETHOS OF ARTISANAL CRAFTSMANSHIP PERMEATES modern life, or at least its marketing does. But recently, there’s also been a genuine return

Cinema Scope

6 min. di lettura

The recent exhibition at Milan’s Museo del Novecento, Light Movement: The Experimental Cinema of Marinella Pirelli (curated by Lucia Aspesi and Iolanda Ratti), has allowed for a long-overdue critical and institutional reassessment of a perennially un

Global Voices

1 min. di lettura

Several Yekuanas -- an indigenous people who live in Venezuela and Brazil -- participated in the project as translators and researchers, and also contributed their voice to the film's characters.

Artist Profile

7 min. di lettura

IN YOUR MASTERS DISSERTATION FROM 2010, YOU spoke about how you feel most ‘at home’ with the moving image. When did you fall in love with this medium? Like most things in life, I just fell into it. During my undergraduate study at what was then the C

India Today

2 min. di lettura

On being asked if he would write a script on sports star Hima Das, who is from his native village Dhing, Rajdweep Dey smiles and says: "Maybe, if the demand is there." Dey is today the most sought-after scriptwriter for Assam's mobile theatre groups,

Classic Rock

5 min. di lettura

What is there left for The Boss to do? He’s made albums (obviously), he’s been the architect of some of the finest rock’n’roll shows we’ve ever witnessed, he’s written his autobiography, he’s even done an extended stint on Broadway… But now he has so

BBC History Magazine

1 min. di lettura

There is a battle going on in Hollywood; women directors are on the rise and they want Hollywood back. Film critic Helen O’Hara’s newest book is part of a wave of women-written work uncovering the forgotten histories and triumphs of women filmmakers

Futurity

3 min. di lettura

Movies starring lead actors from underrepresented groups perform as well as those with white male leads, a new report shows. The work offers insight into how the gender, race, and ethnicity of leading characters relate to a film’s economic success. T

Los Angeles Times

3 min. di lettura

Imagine "The Godfather" made by dazzling Latin American directors who combine bravura filmmaking with political awareness and a probing social conscience. Better than imagining it, see it for yourself in the visually stunning, dramatically gripping "