Philippe Garrel

Violeta Kovacsics, 2020
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15.12.2021
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Nicole Brenez is an essential figure in film criticism and contemporary cinema studies. Her analytical and passionate approach to cinema, emerging from her extraordinary creative freedom, has earned her the respect and admiration of critics all over the world. Her widely followed work has never ceased to highlight the exciting challenges of engaged cinema, the kind that commits to artistic investigation as well as to the urgent social and political issues that concern us all.

Olivier Assayas, 2012
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10.06.2020
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Ten of Olivier Assayas’ favorite films.

Olivier Assayas, 2012
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10.06.2020
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Tien van Olivier Assayas’ favoriete films. 

Olivier Assayas, 2012
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10.06.2020
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Dix des films préférés d’Olivier Assayas.

“For It Is the Critical Faculty That Invents Fresh Forms” (Oscar Wilde)

Nicole Brenez, 2004
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15.12.2021
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With a few remarkable exceptions (Jean Mitry, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Noel Burch ...), the history of cinema has mainly been recounted from the industry’s point of view. May this contribution to a history of forms help us to escape such a dominant ideology and reconsider the works and the artists from a different perspective. Today the violence of the cultural industry is so cynically triumphant that it is possible to establish a law of inverse proportions between the social visibility of a film and its real eminence.