Creating this fantasy Sight & Sound ballot felt as much like excavation as photography.
Jean Epstein is one of the great filmmakers cinephiles discover after deciding there are no more worlds left to conquer.
The film was shockingly new when it was released in 1960.
Someone recently told me that film and video artists produced 2.5 billion hours of viewing material last year.
We can’t really look at Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless with fresh eyes, any more than we can see Citizen Kane or Sunrise for the first time.
When one thinks of parody, one might immediately think of blitzkrieg spoofs like the Mel Brooks movie satires.