Tag: Francois Truffaut
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How The Minds Of The Truman Show Helped Bring Greta Gerwig’s Barbieland To Life
“Barbie” might be a multimillion-dollar corporate product based on a ridiculously lucrative multimedia property, but it’s also an earnest love letter to cinema history. Of course, that’s nothing new for co-writer and director Greta Gerwig. A quick glimpse at the multi-hyphenate’s filmography will reveal she’s never shied away from openly acknowledging her influences. “Frances Ha,”…
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Camera ready: how Agnès Varda turned her photographs into film
Before she picked up a film camera, the revered director was a photographer. The seeds of her groundbreaking cinema lie in her earliest still images, says her daughter, RosalieAgnès Varda, at least in her later years, didn’t make a big deal about being taken seriously. For decades, the film-maker and artist was much respected as…
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All the French New Wave Directors Are Dead — Long Live Their Legacy
Kohn’s Corner is a weekly column about the challenges and opportunities of sustaining American film culture.Chances are that if you care about international cinema, you care about the French New Wave. A loose collective of young directors who came to define their country’s cinema as the 1950s gave way to the ’60s, the French New…