‘Early Shorts of the French New Wave’ Breaks Through Stolid Filmmaking
These 18 short films in Early Shorts of the French New Wave showcase a consistency of personal expression, handheld style, and filming in the street.
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Storm de Hirsch’s Utterly Unclassifiable Feature Film ‘Goodbye in the Mirror’
Thematically and stylistically, Storm de Hirsch’s Goodbye in the Mirror is a bizarre amalgam of films by Varda, Cassavetes, Akerman, Wishman, and a dozen other directors working across mainstream, independent, and avant-garde contexts.
How Is It That Agnès Varda Is So Well Known — Yet So Unknown?
Our pop culture landscape is controlled by capitalistic saturation and a deeply-entrenched machismo ethic. It might not be powerful enough to erase Agnès Varda's genius, but it is shameless enough to eliminate her from the common discourse.
The Joy of Being a Woman: Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
Varda's One Sings, the Other Doesn't is challenging and multi-voiced act of art by and about women; "happiness" in unconventional arrangements its most radical gesture.
Abortion and Difference Feminism in Agnès Varda’s ‘One Sings, the Other Doesn’t’
It is the impossible demand placed on the woman that drives the engine of Agnès Varda's One Sings, the Other Doesn't.
Agnès Varda on Making Films, Admiring Angelina Jolie and Winning a ‘Side Oscar’
While Agnès Varda has said that her latest documentary Faces Places will be her last theatrical feature, it’s hard to imagine that adventurous magpie spirit abating anytime soon.
When Jane Met Agnès: Two Films by Agnès Varda
Two personal and sympathetic explorations of sex, art, and acting: now with restored colour!