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…
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…