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Of Walking in Ice
By Werner Herzog
An excerpt from Werner Herzog’s classic diary account of his three-week pilgrimage from Munich to Paris to visit a dying friend in 1974.
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Dutch Cinema from the ’50s to the early ’70s
By Jeremy Richey
On the golden age of Dutch filmmaking that paved the way for actress Sylvia Kristel.
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Nick Ray and the House of Images
By Serge Daney
An excerpt from the new collection of Serge Daney’s writing published by Semiotext(e), The Cinema House and the World.
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Walerian Borowczyk’s artwork for Blanche
By Walerian Borowczyk
Artist spotlight: Walerian Borowczyk.
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Anatomy of the Devil
By Walerian Borowczyk
A short story by Walerian Borowczyk, newly translated by Michael Levy.
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Objects of Beauty
By Daniel Bird
Fine art, arthouse, and grindhouse collide in the work of Polish director Walerian Borowczyk.
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For Snow Queens
By Darryl Pinckney
An excerpt from Darryl Pinckney's essay, looking back on the '60s jazz romance Paris Blues.
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The Sadean Cinema
By Gary Indiana
An excerpt from Gary Indiana's forthcoming essay collection Fire Season, which looks at Salò, the last film made by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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The Confrontation
By J. Hoberman
On the Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó’s most controversial film.
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Is It a Breakthrough? (The Modernists of Japanese Film)
By Nagisa Ōshima
Nagisa Ōshima’s 1958 assessment of the rebellious crop of filmmakers then-emerging in Japan—including one Yasuzô Masumura.
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Cinema 16
By Metrograph
a sampling of Cinema 16 membership applications signed by certain noteworthies, some perhaps predictable (Sontag), some unexpected (William F. Buckley, Jr.?)