Sombre: Notes of Intention
Introduction: The following document was generated by filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux in 1996, during the preparatory stages for his debut narrative feature, Sombre (1998). Like all his occasional published texts, it…
Nicholas Ray According to Jacques Lourcelles
Jacques Lourcelles’ Dictionnaire du cinéma. Les Films (Robert Laffont, 1992) – part of a reference-book series on cinema published by Robert Laffont and edited by Guy Schoeller (the others are…
Jacques Rozier on French Cancan
First off, I’d like to warn the reader: this text is solely for those who’ve already seen the film and who use video – as I sometimes do – to…