Soumitra Chatterjee, the legendary Indian actor with more than 200 films to his name and famed for his work with Satyajit Ray, has died of complications from the coronavirus.
The Italian-American filmmaker, painter, poet, sculptor and media artist Aldo Tambellini, who had a major influence on the art scene of the sixties and seventies, a pioneer of video art and multimedia installations, has died at the age of 90.
The fight to save the emblematic Cinéma La Clef in Paris from real-estate speculation continues. You can help in the endeavour to buy La Clef and create a creative commons.
In times of social distancing, cinema visits, alone or collectively, are not allowed. Luckily, there’s an abundance of films to stream online, often for free. We listed up some initiatives.
Now that cinemas have closed down again, our experience of cinema has become a solitary delight. But in this time of confinement, we can find our cinephile community in the non-endemic space of the online environment. In the next weeks, Sabzian will select three films a week, available on online platforms, in an effort to propose imagined film-gatherings that can be attended by everyone.
