Jonathan Rosenbaum For over half a century, Jonathan Rosenbaum has written about movies with the belief that cinema is a form of literature. He sees certain camera movements as mysterious pleasures to be explored through adventurous prose, rather than mere puzzles to be solved. In Camera Movements That Confound Us, an experimental investigation into a…
Guillermo Arriaga Escrita por Guillermo Arriaga, autor de Amores perros, 21 Gramos y Babel, A Cielo Abierto es un desgarrador viaje de iniciación que se desarrolla en los áridos paisajes de México en los años 90. Dos años después de que Salvador, de 12 años, sobreviva a un accidente que le cuesta la vida a…
Guillermo Arriaga Written by Guillermo Arriaga, author of Amores perros, 21 Grams and Babel, Upon Open Sky is a searing coming-of-age road trip that unfolds against the arid landscapes of 1990s Mexico. Two years after 12-year-old Salvador survives a crash that kills his father, his older brother Fernando plans a reckless journey north to confront…
Abbas Kiarostami A translation by Iman Tavassoly and Paul Cronin. From the injustice of our time, take refuge in poetry.From the harshness of the beloved, take refuge in poetry. From glaring cruelty, take refuge in poetry. Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of…
Ross Lipman How do classic films remain alive and authentic amidst the shifting sands of time, societal upheaval, and technological advance? The Archival Impermanence Project is a unique work integrating detailed film restoration case studies from the dawn of cinema to present day, in the framework of an organic theory of practice. Growing from the multi-decade career…
Abbas Kiarostami Original poetry by Abbas Kiarostami.Dual-language edition, Farsi and English. A translation by Iman Tavassoly and Paul Cronin. From the injustice of our time, take refuge in poetry.From the harshness of the beloved, take refuge in poetry. From glaring cruelty, take refuge in poetry. Here for a brochure about the Kiarostami poetry project. Abbas…
Selections from Hafez by Abbas Kiarostami Dual-language edition, Farsi and English. A translation by Iman Tavassoly and Paul Cronin. Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami — author of three books of original verse — released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895–1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi…
Abbas Kiarostami Original poetry by Abbas Kiarostami.Dual-language edition, Farsi and English. A translation by Iman Tavassoly and Paul Cronin. From the injustice of our time, take refuge in poetry.From the harshness of the beloved, take refuge in poetry. From glaring cruelty, take refuge in poetry. Here for a brochure about the Kiarostami poetry project. Abbas…
Ian Christie “Immersion” is everywhere in entertainment today. But this promise didn’t start with digital media — it was over two hundred years ago that Georgian London became the world centre of such immersive spectacles as the Leicester Square Panorama, the Eidophusikon’s magical moving pictures with music, and a hundred years later, cinema itself was…
David LaRocca In Werner Herzog / Rogue Filmmaker, David LaRocca draws from a fan’s resolute passion for his subject to face head-on vexing Herzogian notions such as ecstatic truth, the sublime, and the beguiling spirit that animates the fittingly titled Rogue Film School, which the author attended. In our distracted, dissipating times, Herzog is an…