Long before fiction, plot and performance took over the screen, cinema functioned as a record of work, movement, ritual, conflict and everyday life. Now, the history of cinema is celebrated around the ...
Film buffs will frequently cite "Citizen Kane" or "Gone with the Wind" as early classics. But a new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts seeks to showcase lesser-known Black filmmakers and actors ...
Classic films are works of art that have not only stood the test of time but also shaped cinema history. Whether it’s starting a new style in filmmaking, employing innovative techniques or making ...
Frames from ‘La légende des ondines’ (1911) featured in ‘Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema’ (GIF by the author via Vimeo) Cover of ‘Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema’ (click to enlarge) Its over 300 ...
In 1992, B. Ruby Rich wrote an essay about a burgeoning movement in independent film, which she dubbed “New Queer Cinema.” It’s up for debate whether it was, in fact, new: although queer theory was ...
“Rolex has a legacy of about 120 years, which is about as old as the medium of cinema itself,” Lim says. “At the New York ...
Jean-Luc Godard, 1980. (Photo by Gilbert Uzani / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) “Godard didn’t make cinema. Godard was cinema.” So said some French dignitary (was it Macron or his tweeters?) when the ...
“I can’t believe we’re here,” a friend said to me about halfway through this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato, which takes over the center of Bologna for nine glorious days every summer, before correcting ...
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