Category Archive for: ‘Issue 36 – Classics & Re-runs’

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 from an Unknown Woman (1948), the meneur de jeu (Anton Walbrook) in La Ronde (1950), ‘Maupassant’ (Jean Servais) in Le Plaisir (1951) and the Ringmaster (Peter Ustinov) in Lola Montès …

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 to silent cinema as “a victim of technological restlessness”. He added: “For me, radio’s a personal loss, I miss it very much … “ [1] In large part, Welles’ own …

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 one side, cinema on the other. But, all through the book, you never cease demonstrating the symbolic link between the two … Gilles Mouëllic: Effectively, the book could have been …

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 was about six.” His father, Attilio Bertolucci, was a celebrated poet in his lifetime and beyond; during the 1950s and ‘60s, he edited the important magazine Il gatto selvatico (see …