From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
David Hudson, IFC.com
David Hudson, IFC.com
Maria van Dijk
London, England
Maria van Dijk is a film journalist who lectured for five years at the University of North London, where she completed a doctorate in film studies in 2000. Her thesis made a case for the film de patrimoine, a very nationally specific costume drama that first emerged with Jean de Florette in the mid-1980s. She lives in London.
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Is the film reinforcing or exploding stereotypes about female sexuality, or both?
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Identity politics, urban terror, and Bulle Ogier distinguish this festival from some of its more pretentious peers
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Despite the enduring lure of Gerard Depardieu in a frock coat, inventive French auteurs are reviving the low-budget genre film
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