Before being part of the «Axis of Evil», to use the rhetoric of the Bush years, or the target of Operation Epic Fury, Iran is first and foremost a country with a culture dating back thousands of years, expressed in its deeply moving cinema.
Nuremberg, directed by James Vanderbilt, combines many of the shortcomings of our time without subtlety, according to our reviewer. The film is nevertheless in the vein of films that deal with the Second World War without romanticizing it.
According to a 2019 study, 90% of people keep an eye on their phone while watching TV. This pushes screenwriters to focus on spoken text rather than image.
Every year in Vesoul, the Festival international des cinémas d'Asie (International Festival of Asian Cinema) plays to packed houses with works from the other side of the world. Meet Martine and Jean-Marc Thérouanne, the architects of a cultural miracle that is both demanding and popular.
Apple TV+«s latest Golden Globe success, the new series from the creator of »X-Files« and »Breaking Bad" examines the modern temptation of one-track thinking in a dystopia that goes against the grain of its time. Disconcerting and intellectually stimulating.
This month, I'm taking the opposite tack from my previous column, which saw artificial intelligence as a danger to cinema, by inviting you to rediscover a series in which AI plays the right role, for once.
On the menu this month is a fictional and unlikely encounter: that between my former film history teacher and virtual actress Tilly Norwood. He mourns the silent films of the '20s, she embodies the AI ready to supplant flesh-and-blood actresses.
Ostracized by critics and shunned by audiences, Francis Ford Coppola's civilizational fresco illuminates the ethical and aesthetic dilemmas of Western culture.
Does a documentary imply a greater responsibility for the filmmaker than a work of fiction? Yes, without a doubt - at least, that's the postulate I'm defending at the end of the Les Diablerets International Alpine Film Festival.
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