This is a cross post that also appears on my blog at theillusionists.org. February 2nd holds a special significance for me: it was on this day, exactly 9 years ago,…
A documentary about the work of legendary Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist, who was a longtime collaborator of Ingmar Bergman. My favorite anecdote from the documentary, about the filming of Bergman's…
This past Wednesday, after a long afternoon of editing I rushed to the Forum des Images – a Mecca for any cinephile in the Chatelet area of Paris. The Forum…
Last night I watched for the first time Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967) a poetic film noir starring a young Alain Delon. I was especially struck by the suspenseful, lyrical…
On the evening of New Year's Eve I stared expectantly at the electronic display of my television set – when the four red digits turned from 23:59 to 00:00 I…