A generation after Godard and Truffaut penned their first film criticisms for Cahiers du Cinema, filmmaker Olivier Assayas cut his teeth there as a writer. He has subsequently directed 13 feature…
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a filmmaker and visual artist working in Chiangmai, Thailand. In May, 2010 he won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for his film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past…
In film, racking focus isn't just left to the cinematographer. The viewer undergoes a similar process of recognition. Each film begins in that fruitful gap of unknowing where characters and elements …
My editor said that I only have 600 words here. I'll be brief. How to limit discussion of Semiospectacle, a "literary review" premised on verbal embellishment? Footnotes aside, this amply titled…