A History of French Cinema, from Yellow to Red
By dividing the life of Cahiers into distinct periods, Bickerton is able to make critical judgements about each stage of the journal’s evolution. Aside from the Truffaut and Godard period — the ‘Yellow Years’, during which the critic Andr é Bazin was an important figure in the development of the publication and a guiding influence on the younger writers — two other periods emerge as compelling: the stretch between 1969 and 1973, covered here by a chapter called ‘Red Notebooks’, when Maoism became central to the journal’s critical perspectives — often at the expense of covering film in any great detail — and 1974-1981, when an editorial team of Serge Daney and Serge Toubiana took the reins of the failing journal.
Karl Whitney on Emilie Bickerton‘s A Short History of Cahiers du cin éma.
What’s the Frequency, Tom?
3:AM‘s Andrew Gallix interviews Tom McCarthy for this month’s Dazed & Confused magazine: Why do you think that all new means of telecommunication are linked to death, mourning and melancholia? I don’t know if I can explain it. It’s just a pattern that keeps recurring. For every comm-tech invention, there seems to be a dead […]
ampere’s and
This week’s visuals: Marc H. Miller‘s 98 Bowery & William T. Vollmann‘s invoice to Penguin for “4 street prostitutes’ modeling time” [via] & Illustrated mid-century album covers, Finnegans Wake by Russo, Basil Rathbone reads Edgar Allan Poe by Antonio Frasconi & Tate Britain exhibits William Blake art found in railway timetable [via] & Never-before-seen shots […]