EDITORIAL HUB FOR CINEPHILES
Kevin Lee
Cannes: Maren Ade’s Breakthrough
Maren Ade’s EVERYONE ELSE sees romance through female eyes. Editor’s note: We republish this article from February 2012, as Maren Ade’s new film, Toni Erdmann, premieres …
Lawrence Jordan’s Road to Utopia
Lawrence Jordan’s ‘Sophie’s Place’ is a fever dream brimming with inexplicable ascensions. Editor’s note: Today we append and republish this piece from our archive to …
A Noir Journey Into No-Woman’s Land with Ida Lupino
Edmund O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy drive an unwanted passenger in ‘The Hitch-hiker’ (dir. Ida Lupino) We republish this 2011 story as part of our monthlong celebration …
Claire Denis on 35 SHOTS OF RUM
Editor’s note: Fandor is featuring women filmmakers in the month of March and this article joins thirty-one days of Keyframe features on women in film. …
Video: Christian Petzold’s Deceptive Surfaces
If one wants to call Christian Petzold the most important German filmmaker of the last decade, it’s because his films operate on multiple levels whose …
Petzold: Romanticizing the Past Is Wrong
Christian Petzold’s ‘Barbara’ finds an East German character moving from warm to cold. Editor’s note: We republish this 2012 interview as Barbara debuts on Fandor. Christian …
War Movies for People Who Don’t Like War Movies
With ‘Marwencol,’ war is revisited and re-arranged with a vivid imagination. There’s no such thing as a truly anti-war film, Francois Truffaut once said. By …
Ageless Grace: Five Looks at Simone Signoret
Editor’s note: We revisit this commentary from 2010 in honor of the publication of Diabolique, which plays as part of our Criterion Collection titles under …
Ten Films about Food
Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Meat’ [Editor’s note: We re-run this 2012 Food List as a complement to Anna Tatarska’s interview with Eric Schlosser on his new film, Food …
Video: Open Source Epic SITA SINGS THE BLUES
[Editor’s note: Nina Paley is a Fandor FIX-featured filmmaker this week, which gives us good reason to replay this excellent video essay by Kevin B. …
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