Spotlight | Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, US)
By Jerry White Whoever thought that Gilles Deleuze and the Discovery Channel would come together to tell us something about the state of modern cinema? And yet here we are, presented with Werner...
View ArticleSpotlight | Petropolis: Aerial Perpectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (Peter...
The French première of Peter Mettler’s new work Petropolis at the scrappy Festival OFNI in Poitiers (this year devoted to Canada) took place at a planetarium, in what the organisers called “un lieu...
View ArticleWeb Only | DVD: A Glance at North Korean Cinema
By Jerry White “Depicting the typical man of the new era means creating images of people who live, work and struggle with the conviction that they are masters of the revolution and the work of...
View ArticleSergei Dvortsevoy
By Jerry White Born in Kazakhstan and film-schooled in Moscow, Sergei Dvortsevoy has not only become his homeland’s cineaste laureate—eclipsing the brutalist Darezhan Omirbaev through his belief in the...
View ArticleIda (Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland/Denmark)
By Jerry White Ida marks Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski’s first feature film in Polish—the director immigrated to the UK with his parents in the ’70s, and subsequently built his career there—but...
View ArticleStar Wars: Laura Poitras’ Astro Noise
By Jerry White “I should rewatch The Man Who Fell to Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and All the President’s Men.”—Laura Poitras, “Berlin Journal,” February 7, 2013 “For those who listen, the stars are...
View ArticleGeneral Report II: The New Abduction of Europe (Pere Portabella, Spain) —...
From Cinema Scope #67 The Changing of the Age: Pere Portabella on Informe General II By Jerry White I have always thought of Pere Portabella as the most French filmmaker outside of France—though...
View ArticleSpotlight | Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, US)
By Jerry White Whoever thought that Gilles Deleuze and the Discovery Channel would come together to tell us something about the state of modern cinema? And yet here we are, presented with Werner...
View ArticleSpotlight | Petropolis: Aerial Perpectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (Peter...
The French première of Peter Mettler’s new work Petropolis at the scrappy Festival OFNI in Poitiers (this year devoted to Canada) took place at a planetarium, in what the organisers called “un lieu...
View ArticleWeb Only | DVD: A Glance at North Korean Cinema
By Jerry White “Depicting the typical man of the new era means creating images of people who live, work and struggle with the conviction that they are masters of the revolution and the work of...
View ArticleSergei Dvortsevoy
By Jerry White Born in Kazakhstan and film-schooled in Moscow, Sergei Dvortsevoy has not only become his homeland’s cineaste laureate—eclipsing the brutalist Darezhan Omirbaev through his belief in the...
View ArticleIda (Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland/Denmark)
By Jerry White Ida marks Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski’s first feature film in Polish—the director immigrated to the UK with his parents in the ’70s, and subsequently built his career there—but...
View ArticleStar Wars: Laura Poitras’ Astro Noise
By Jerry White “I should rewatch The Man Who Fell to Earth, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and All the President’s Men.”—Laura Poitras, “Berlin Journal,” February 7, 2013 “For those who listen, the stars are...
View ArticleGeneral Report II: The New Abduction of Europe (Pere Portabella, Spain) —...
From Cinema Scope #67 The Changing of the Age: Pere Portabella on Informe General II By Jerry White I have always thought of Pere Portabella as the most French filmmaker outside of France—though...
View ArticleOnly Connect: D.A. Pennebaker, 1925-2019
Cinéma vérité is all too easy to misunderstand, all too easy to take literally. Worst of all, it’s all too easy to piously debunk—even by some of its most famous practitioners. Frederick Wiseman, when...
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