In 2012, Amos Gitaï was invited by the Rencontres d’Arles to exhibit his work at the Eglise des Précheurs, a place steeped in history, a curious choice for a director…
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« Boat People » is a Hong Kong film directed by Ann Hui, first shown in theatres in 1982. The film stars George Lam, Andy Lau, Cora Miao, and Season Ma. At…
Nicaragua 1979: Star photographer Russel Price covers the civil war against president Somoza. Facing the cruel fighting - people versus army - it's often hard for him to stay neutral.…
Leon Bernstein is New York's best news photographer in 1942, equally at home with cops and crooks. The pictures are often about death and pain, but they are the ones…
Here is a book we read with jubilation, glamour and cinema’s family photo album. A time period when celebrities were not treated as “vulgar” people, but as “stars”. A distant…
Andrei Tarkovsky is a Russian filmmaker born in 1932 and deceased in 1986 in France at 54. Despite the censorship he suffered in his native country, he made seven feature…
Dennis Hopper, the outlaw of American film, died in May 2010. For the general public, however, he will forever remain that beatnik cavalier sitting astride his Harley Davidson in the…
Chris Marker’s retrospective in Arles in 2011 presented more than 300 works, produced between 1957 and 2010. Coréennes is a project made in 1957 when Chris Marker was one of…
The cult film Blow-Up is a unique exploration of the mysteries and ambiguities inherent in photographs. A new book, Antonioni’s Blow-Up by Philippe Garner and David Alan Mellor, evokes Antonioni’s…
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of…