Falling Women and Fallible Narrators
Several of Max Ophüls’ late films make elaborate use of narrators who, in different ways, tell the story, or at least major parts of it: Lisa (Joan Fontaine) in Letter…
An Abandoned Mine: Notes on Orson Welles’ Radio Work
During his interview sessions with Peter Bogdanovich between 1969 and 1972, director-writer-actor Orson Welles looked back on his work in radio and described the medium as “an abandoned mine”, akin…
Jazz and Cinema: An Interview with Gilles Mouëllic
Translated by Adrian Martin Jean-Baptiste Thoret: Your book title (Jazz et cinéma, Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 2000) suggests almost an opposition in kind - as if there was jazz on…
In Search of Mystery
Bernardo Bertolucci was born (in 1940) into a world - and more specifically, a household - of poetry. “I began writing poetry as soon as I could write, when I…