Varda

Book Excerpt: A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda by Carrie Rickey | Features

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When Varda approached Resnais for help, he asked to see her screenplay. Immediately she delivered one to him at his place on rue des Plantes, a fifteen- minute stroll from rue Daguerre. After reading it, the future director of the classic drama Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) declined politely by letter. “Your research is too close … Read more

TIFF 2023: Stamped from the Beginning, They Shot the Piano Player, Viva Varda! | Festivals & Awards

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Williams then doubles back from that opening frame, retracing how slavery shifted from a color-blind system that included Slavs, before eventually becoming a practice primarily used to put Africans in captivity.  His film compares favorably with Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” as a work interested in the falsities that have informed the act … Read more