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Dec 6, 2019 — Serge Daney on Sergei Parajanov, James Quandt on Robert Bresson, and Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin on Maurice Pialat are among this week’s highlights.
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Jul 26, 2018 — Sergei Parajanov’s mesmerizing take on the life of poet Sayat-Nova plays in a free screening in Los Angeles this week.
The writer and director of Nosferatu shares his fascination with Sergei Parajanov’s ornate tableaus, praises costume designer Piero Tosi’s work on Medea and Death in Venice, and talks about how Jack Clayton’s The Innocents ignites his imagination.
The director of Drylongso talks about her fondness for Jean-Pierre Gorin, her love of To Sleep with Anger’s title sequence, and the influence of Sergei Parajanov on her own work.
Dec 4, 2018 — Twelve episodic works and seventy-three shorts will premiere in Park City, while Rotterdam shines its spotlight on Parajanov and Godard.
May 29, 2014 — Christopher Hobbs is a production designer whose work includes Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1976), Caravaggio (1986), and Edward II (1991); Terence Davies’s The Long Day Closes (1992) and The Neon Bible (1995); and Todd Haynes’s Velvet Goldmine (1998). He says that...
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Jul 8, 2026 — Around five hundred films—restorations, revivals, rediscoveries—screened last month in Bologna.
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May 12, 2026 — Sorting through critics’ most-anticipated titles, catching up with interviews and profiles, and more.
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Apr 15, 2026 — The festival presents winners of top prizes in Rotterdam and Locarno as well as highlights from Cannes and Berlin.
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Nov 10, 2025 — Olivia Laing’s second novel is set in mid-1970s Rome, where Fellini is shooting Casanova and Pasolini is at work on Salò.