Ben Wheatley’s Favorites, Mekas on Filmmaking and Poetry, Hitchcock’s Blocking
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- Director Ben Wheatley discusses his favorite films, which include Godard’s Weekend. After watching it, he says, “I almost felt like I’d had the stack of cards in my head rearranged and reprogrammed.”
- Phillip Lopate writes about his most “magically sublime” cinema-going experiences.
- Enrica Fico remembers her late husband, Michelangelo Antonioni. “Michelangelo had a unique gaze,” she says.
- Revisiting Jacques Rivette’s “enchanting power”
- Aki Kaurismaki to be honored at this year’s Cannes Film Festival
- A look back at the greatest spy movies of all time
- Anthology Film Archive cofounder Jonas Mekas on filmmaking and how it relates to the “exalted, ecstatic state of living, of seeing, of experiencing” that is poetry
- Explore a new collection of Terry Southern’s letters. “Letter writing is the best writing of all,” Southern once said. “It’s like writing to yourself, but you’ve got an excuse to do it.”
- Examining the most Shakespearean works of Akira Kurosawa, once called “the pictorial Shakespeare of our time” by Steven Spielberg
- Arnaud Desplechin talks with Kent Jones about My Golden Days and Hollywood filmmaking.
- How Alfred Hitchcock blocked a scene:
