History Lesson(s) #30

City of Fuling, 2011 - Chen Jiagang, from the series The Great Three Gorges

Realism(s) #39

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Jean-Claude Rousseau's Senza Mostra (2011) is currently streaming at Dérives.

Also of note: a James Benning Tribute at Bradford IFF (including BNSF, Deseret and casting a glance on 16mm, and a special assembly of some of the best work produced by his students at CalArts); a conversation with Nicole Brenez; a great interview with Raya Martin; and a new, ongoing translation of Antonio Porchia's Voices.

History Lesson(s) #29

The Immigrant - James Gray, 2013, 35mm

Everything or nothing #7

Les trois désastres - Jean-Luc Godard, 2013, digital/HD video

History Lesson(s) #28

Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights - Philippe Garrel, 1985, 35mm

History Lesson(s) #27

Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights - Philippe Garrel, 1985, 35mm

History Lesson(s) #26

Jiabiangou - Wang Bing, 2010, HD video

Everything or nothing #6

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Bad filmmakers (sadly for them) have no ideas. Good filmmakers (it's what limits them) tend to have too many. Great filmmakers (especially the inventors) have only one. This idée fixe enables them to keep moving on, to take the idea through ever-renewing and ever-interesting landscapes. The price to pay is well-known: a certain solitude. What about great critics? It is the same thing, except there are none. They become (something else, outdated, filmmakers), they get (first famous, then on everyone's nerves), and finally, they bore. All but one.

--Serge Daney, in a review of Dudley Andrew's (very fine) 1978 biography of André Bazin, newly translated into English by Paul Chouchana for Double Exposure 6.