The Ungrateful Tenant vs. Snapshot: Playing with the Classics
Two films from distant parts of the world pay tribute to cinema’s own history, reviving languages or formats from the…
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At Night: Making Room for the Other in the Paris Underground
I must confess that I usually take against films that adopt a pamphleteering style and wear their ideology too openly,…
Miranda Pennell: “I would like cinema to open up a space for justice”
For Miranda Pennell, history and the present exist on the same plane: each helps us understand the other. The filmmaker…
The “Mise-en-scène” of Power: The Football Match in Ken Loach’s Kes
A memorable episode of a football match in cinema—especially when depicted by a director like Ken Loach—acquires significant symbolic and…