Category Archive for: ‘Issue 12 – Classics & Re-runs’

Tarkovsky, or the burning house by Petr Král Uploaded 1 March 2001 As part of a homage by the French magazine Positif to Marlene Dietrich, Petr Král contributed a page – somewhere between an essay, a short story and a reverie – called “The Visitor”. Like many of Král’s writings, it is about the strange, historic coincidence between a dream – one …

[1] Uploaded 1 March 2001 Translated by Kevin Windle for Ivan Divis  On Mystery The work of Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), whose career was cut short by his premature death, is undoubtedly among the most significant in the entire history of the cinema. In Tarkovsky’s work – coming after Fellini’s – the attempt to put cinematic images to the service of …

Germaine Dulac and newsreel: 3 articles [1] Uploaded 1 March 2001 Born Germaine Saisset-Schneider in 1882, the film director we know as Germaine Dulac came to prominence in the 1920s, alongside Louis Delluc, as director of a series of feature films, the best-known of which is  La souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Mme Beudet, 1923). Her controversial collaboration with Antonin Artaud, La …

[1] Uploaded 31 March 2001 Introduction by Sian Reynolds I. The educational and social effects of newsreels [2] The cinema is only forty years old. For a human being, to reach forty means achieving maturity, but for inventions, it is still the bloom of youth: their development depends on the speed at which intelligence is brought to bear on them to make …