Watch the brand new trailer for Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book
It’s kinda strange to be extremely excited about a new trailer for a Jean-Luc Godard film, but here we are. The Image Book is the sinuous, playfully inscrutable and wholly original new work from the...
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In a year of seemingly unmitigated horrors, there’s a perverse comfort to be had in the arrival of a new film by New Wave godhead turned cut-and-paste collage maestro, Jean-Luc Godard. And based on...
View ArticleThe enduring legacy of Anna Karina’s on-screen style
Long before our Instagram feeds were oversaturated with retro-style ‘French girl’ outfits, Anna Karina was putting loose change into jukeboxes and whimsically dancing around Parisian cafes in an array...
View ArticleAfter the mass walkout, what’s next for Cahiers du Cinéma?
Yesterday, shockwaves rippled through the film world as the entire staff of the legendary French film journal Cahiers du cinéma resigned as one. Fifteen salaried editors – allow us to first register...
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On Location: The graffiti wall from Sympathy for the Devil
Consider the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard and it’s likely that the first place that comes to mind is Paris, in particular Paris at the turn of the 1960s when its style was never bettered. Yet by the end...
View ArticleThe Inheritance
Our politics is interwoven into the way we lead our lives in such an intimate manner that is inseparable from our everyday existence. Ephraim Asili’s debut feature The Inheritance captures this...
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24 curious facts about the Cannes Film Festival
“I never draw fauns, centaurs or mythical creatures anywhere else,” said Picasso of the French Riviera. “They only seem to live in these parts.” Indeed it is a place where sublime visions are realised...
View ArticleFilms to last a lifetime – RIP Jean-Luc Godard
Everyone assumed that he would go on living forever: puffing on his giant stogies; wearing his shades; insouciantly shaping and re-shaping the bounds of image culture from his little hidey-hole in...
View ArticleThe Eurotrash guide to Jean-Luc Godard
With its surreal sketches, risqué cultural commentary and cheerily low productions values, Eurotrash was the late-night talkshow du jour in the 1990s, pulling in a whopping 2-3 million viewers per...
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What to watch at home in June
In a new monthly column, Anton Bitel highlights a selection of must-haves, from re-releases to streaming premieres. The Lighthouse, dir. Robert Eggers, 2018 “I’m probably a figment of your...
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