Essay
Rediscovering Daniel Pommereulle
On one of the French New Wave’s lesser-known screen dandies.
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Philippe Garrel
Interview
Dialogue in Zero Gravity: Philippe Garrel Meets Leos Carax
While Boy Meets Girl incontestably expresses the spirit of the 1980s, it is also a film that has assimilated the cinemas of Godard and Garrel, in other words of the two previous generations (Carax was born in 1962, Garrel in 1948). We were also aware that Garrel pays close attention to contemporary French cinema, regardless from what generation, and when asked, he confirmed that he was especially interested in Carax’s film.
Essay
To Fall in Love with Film Leave New York
The city set a terrible precedent for me: I began to understand film-going—sitting in what are supposed to be the darkest, most anonymous and unassuming places—as the most important way to express my cultural and social capital. But then I moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, the greatest film city in America!
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Essay
Philippe Garrel: Modernity’s Secret Child
The films Philippe Garrel has sent out from 1964 to the present are like deeply intimate letters in which he reports on his travels (or perhaps the more psychedelic word ‘trip’ is better suited here) to the land of modern cinema.
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