An Interview with Tewfik Saleh

Conversation
06.12.2023
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My duty as a filmmaker consists in furnishing the arms of critique, the intellectual means to understand what happens so that the spectators are not “had” by what they’re told. I don’t believe at all that The Dupes is a negative film because it talks of failure. My position is a little like the mother who warns her child, “If you do this, this is what will happen. If you go into the woods, you will be eaten by the wolf…”

Article
22.11.2023
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It will take me a bit longer to love Vanda, but how can I say “no” to someone who says “yes” to everyone, to someone with the most beautiful shots in the film and, always or nearly always, with the list of yellow pages on her lap, as dazzling as the light from “chasing the dragon” in the dark or the silver lying about in every drawer, so luminously punctuating the film?

22.11.2023
A COLLECTION OF 9 texts, 5 film pages, 1 event
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The Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa made his first film, Blood, in 1989. In 1994, Down to Earth followed, which was filmed in Cape Verde. Costa came back from the island with a number of parcels and letters from Cape Verdeans he had met there, addressed to their relatives and friends who had emigrated to Portugal. His task as a postman brought him to Lisbon’s Fontainhas neighbourhood, where many migrants were living at the time. After this first contact with the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, Costa kept returning there, filming Ossos in 1997, the first instalment in a series of films he would make with the inhabitants of Fontainhas.

Passage
08.11.2023
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Les images des films sont constamment distillées dans notre esprit, où elles se mêlent aux souvenirs de nos propres vies, générant perpétuellement de nouvelles narrations. Ce n’est pas tant l’acte de regarder des films que les images des films qui persistent dans notre mémoire et poussent le cinéma dans le domaine des rêves. Dans nos souvenirs, les images deviennent porteuses de possibilités infinies.

Over Anatomie d’une chute (2023) van Justine Triet

Article
15.11.2023
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Puur boekhoudkundig lijkt Triets film nochtans foutloos; alle elementen van de grand film tekenen present en Anatomie wil zijn kwaliteitslabels niet wegsteken. Ondanks de kritische theorie en handige sjablonen wordt Triet vooral het slachtoffer van haar eigen zoektocht naar herkenbaarheid: een gegentrificeerde televisiefilm overschrijdt niet gemakkelijk de grenzen van zijn genre.

A Conversation with Pedro Costa on In Vanda’s Room

Conversation
22.11.2023
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Cyril Neyrat: What is the origin of In Vanda’s Room

Pedro Costa: Considering the film as it is now, the form it has, it can only come from things like tiredness and disgust. Not from a search. Nor from a rupture, in the sense of a film that you make by saying to yourself: “I’ve got an idea, I’m going to make a film with this form, in this environment.” It surely comes from the years before cinema, from something other than cinema. It doesn’t come from childhood but surely from adolescence, in other words from the bedroom.

The Films of Anne-Marie Miéville

14.11.2023
A COLLECTION OF 5 texts, 10 film pages, 1 event, 1 news item
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“The love experience will be reshaped into a relationship that is meant to be between one human being and another, no longer one that flows from man to woman.” This quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, which adorns the end of Lou n’a pas dit non (1994), encapsulates the essence of Anne-Marie Miéville’s quest, which is driven by a universal, imperishable question: how to live together?

Een gesprek over WTC A Love Story (2020) en WTC A Never-ending Love Story (2023)

Conversation
29.11.2023
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Sinds 2017 nemen Lietje Bauwens en Wouter De Raeve de stedelijke vernieuwing in de Brusselse Noordwijk onder de loep. Dit onderzoek resulteerde in de films WTC A Love Story (2020) en het recente vervolg, WTC A Never-ending Love Story (2023), dat ze samen regisseerden met Daan Milius. Dagmar Teurelincx en Timeau De Keyser gaan in gesprek met Lietje Bauwens, Wouter De Raeve en hun filmdramaturg Daan Milius, over het gebruik van spel en fictie in hun films.

NEWS
06.11.2023
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Cinéma Nova needs your support! Help them acquire the long-term lease of the cinema building located at number 3 rue d’Arenberg in Brussels, by supporting their recently started cooperative Supernova Coop.

NEWS
16.11.2023
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The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) recently found itself embroiled in a controversy as several filmmakers – including Sky Hopinka, Miko Revereza, Maryam Tafakory, Charlie Shackleton, and Basma al-Sharif – withdrew their documentaries over allegations that the festival was stifling Palestinian activists.

Obituaries
23.11.2023
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On Monday the 13th of November, film critic and longtime editor of Positif magazine Michel Ciment died at age 85.