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In Ardmore, not far from the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, is a video store called Viva Video: The Last Picture Store. This is one of the last proper video stores… Read more »
In Ardmore, not far from the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, is a video store called Viva Video: The Last Picture Store. This is one of the last proper video stores… Read more »
Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik (1992) presents itself as a film about Soviet filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin (best known for the feature film Happiness), but if one goes beyond its promotional… Read more »
William Klein came to film from the world of fashion. He had garnered acclaim for both his photographic essays on urban environments and his fashion spreads in numerous magazines long… Read more »
This review was originally published in the Spring of 2019. The Philadelphia Institute Of Contemporary Art (ICA) in coordination with the Lightbox Film Center has curated a retrospective of Tony… Read more »
I saw Todd Phillips’ film Joker (2019) on the same day that Martin Scorsese’s comments on the Marvel/Disney films really started to gain momentum in the press as celebrities began… Read more »
In April, 2015, Dagored, a record label based out of Florence Italy, re-issued in limited editions the soundtracks of two Paul Morrissey features, Blood For Dracula (1974) and Flesh For… Read more »
When the world gets to a point where it no longer expects to be hit into excitement or tickled into guffaws by every film, when speed isn’t the test of… Read more »
This piece was originally written in March 2014. Jean-Luc Godard has said that the cinema died when filmmakers failed to show the Holocaust. Godard has also stated that the Americanization… Read more »
Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth film, Vivre Sa Vie (1962), is a character study manifested in a twelve part tableaux. Anna Karina (Godard’s then wife and muse) plays the lead, Nana, a… Read more »
Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub once said “there is no such thing as film history”. Films only really exist as we watch them, as we play back the footage. If there is… Read more »