Night in the Lens

Short essays

An Ant in a Cathedral – Two Films by Stéphane Breton

The City From the Back of a Truck – A Look at Chadian Cinema Today

A Delicate Matter – Nomads, Wilderness, and the Soviet Mind

Every Creek and Rivulet – The New Deal Onscreen

Forest of Sand, Rivers of Bliss – Two Films by Robert Fenz

‘Journey to the West’ on Rewind - Two Films by Pema Tseden

Life Ridiculing Art – Kazuo Hara, Private Eye

Orcadian Rhythm – The Poetic Cinema of Margaret Tait

Ragged Edge of Eden – Three Films by Jana Ševcíková

Sleepwalking Through the Mekong – Marguerite Duras, From Page to Celluloid

Stones Into Seedlings - Three From Benegal’s Middle Period

The Sun and the Last Star Have Burned out – The Black Art of Aldo Tambellini

The Surrogate and His Double – Four Early Documentaries by Alain Resnais

Traits de Lumière - A Cinematographer’s Guide to Paris

The Vermillion Smear’d – A Look at Basu Bhattacharya’s 70s Work

Individual film reviews

Adoption (1975)

Agrarian Utopia (2009)

Apanjan (1968)

Ballast (2008)

Le Beau Mariage (1982)

Cairo Station (1958)

Children of God (2009)

A City of Sadness (1989)

Death in the Garden (1956)

Defying Everybody (1972)

Drôle de Drame (1937)

Elsewhere (2001)

The Exiles (1961)

Forest of Bliss (1985)

Forest of the Hanged (1964)

From the East (1993)

Good Bye (2011)

A Grin Without a Cat (1977)

The Guerilla Fighter (1973)

The House Is Black (1962)

The Hunt (1966)

I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2005)

Ice on Fire (1991)

In Custody (1993)

Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2006)

Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)

Kuroneko (1968)

Limite (1931)

Madeinusa (2006)

Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

Manufactured Landscapes (2006)

The May Lady (1998)

Me Without You (2001)

Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)

Mist (1967)

Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)

Los Muertos (2004)

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)

The Navigators (2001)

Never Let Go (1960)

The Night of Counting the Years (1969)

Nostalgia for the Light (2010)

Nothing but a Man (1964)

Octubre (2010)

A Peck on the Cheek (2002)

Peppermint Candy (1999)

Pickpocket (2001)

The Plea (1967)

A Prophet (2009)

Rapado (1992)

Radio On (1980)

Rat-Trap (1982)

Recollections of the Yellow House (1989)

Rice People (1994)

The Ritual (1977)

Rodrigo D: No Future (1990)

Sambizanga (1972)

The Secret of the Grain (2007)

Shape of the Moon (2005)

The Sky Turns (2004)

Slow Action (2010)

Spiritual Voices (1995)

Spring in a Small Town (1948)

Stone Mountain (2005)

Sweetgrass (2009)

Taiga (1992)

Times Square (1980)

Treeless Mountain (2008)

Tropical Malady (2004)

Vacas (1992)

Vagabond (1985)

Vera Drake (2004)

Vidas Secas (1963)

Violence at Noon (1966)

The White Dove (1960)

Whores’ Glory (2011)

Yeelen (1987)

Yes (2004)

You Are Not an Orphan (1963)

Zigeunerweisen (1980)

Book Reviews

Arthur Nolletti, Jr. – The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter Through Tears

Travels

For my wandering right eye

Events

January 21st, 2012 - Light Reading: Views and Wavelengths