Francois Truffaut, “A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema,” in Movies and Methods, Vol. I, ed. Bill Nichols (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974), 224-237. Considering how often it’s cited and…
Philppe Mary, “Cinematic Microcosm and Cultural Cosmologies: Elements of a Sociology of the New Wave,” Cinema Journal 49, No. 4 (Summer 2010), 159-166. Despite what its abstract said, it felt like…
The Rules of the Game (dir. Jean Renoir, 1939) – It was time to revisit the great work. Christopher Faulkner makes a great analysis of the film through an ethnographic mode.…
It’s one you’re supposed to see, one that you should be embarrassed if you haven’t seen it, and its fingerprints are more than evident all over many films made since.…
Shoot the Piano Player should not be so playful for being made by a man who had been a critic before he made it. The attitude of critics nowadays is…
