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27/07/2024

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PARIS—With more than a billion viewers tuning in from around the world only to find themselves watching a panel of French film scholars and critical theorists, the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics began Friday with a tedious 45-minute discussion of Jean-Luc Godard’s early works. “We’re...

14/07/2024

Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard at Cannes.

13/07/2024

Bill Viola, whose video artworks helped establish the medium in contemporary art, has died at 73.

26/06/2024

Anna Karina.

21/05/2024

We are accepting nominations for the 2024 National Film Registry. Deadline is August 15, 2024.

"Budding tap dancers with a penchant for flower delivery don’t usually pick up the tag of enfant terrible, but it was ob...
21/05/2024

"Budding tap dancers with a penchant for flower delivery don’t usually pick up the tag of enfant terrible, but it was obvious from the start that Korine was out to upend things."

He rocketed to notoriety at 19 with the shocking film Kids. Now, at 51, he’s smoking two fat ci**rs for breakfast – and making retina-burning work with acids and infrared cameras. Our writer gets deep with the eternal enfant terrible

20/05/2024

David Bordwell published 20 books over his game-changing career. Remarkably, none of them were his 1974 dissertation, "French Impressionist Cinema." With the blessing of Kristin Thompson, we have digitized & added this work to the Media History Digital Library. You can find it today on the Lantern homepage: https://lantern.mediahist.org/

Huge thanks to my Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research colleagues Mary Huelsbeck & Zachary Zahos for their hard work in scanning and processing this volume. And, above all, thanks to DB and KT for their generosity, friendship, and trust. Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell: observations on film art

20/05/2024
18/05/2024

American filmmaker Lois Weber was a pioneer, emerging as one of the only female directors while experimenting with filming techniques and bold themes.

16/05/2024

A century ago, French artists and filmmakers showed the way towards a dreamlike, confrontational, nonsensical cinema, from The Seashell and the Clergyman to Un chien andalou.

15/05/2024
13/05/2024

Though best known as a novelist, Marguerite Duras pursued a unique filmmaking career of upending expectations.

11/05/2024

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07/05/2024

Narcisa Hirsch (1928 — 2024)

06/05/2024

Orson Welles by Jean Cocteau, 1950

05/05/2024

Agnès Varda at the Palais idéal in France, 1955.

29/04/2024

Happy birthday to the Mother of the American Avant-Garde, MAYA DEREN. Explore her full filmography at film-makerscoop.com/filmmakers/maya-deren and grab a DVD copy of her 1943 masterpiece MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON on our online store today!

26/04/2024
26/04/2024

Anna Karina, cinematographer Raoul Coutard & director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Alphaville (1965)

25/04/2024

The director’s 18-minute film Scénarios will premiere at this year’s Cannes film festival accompanied by his 34-minute introduction

21/04/2024

Maya Deren by Alexandr Hackenschmied

18/04/2024

A ballooning number of repertory groups dedicated to cinema in its original medium are springing up across the UK. They explain its uphill thrills

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