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Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSAbove: Sidney Poitier holding his best actor Oscar, won for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963). The singular actor, director, and civil rights activist Sidney Poitier died last Thursday. An immigrant from the Bahamas who rose to prominence through the American Negro Theatre, then Broadway, Poitier entered Hollywood when few complex roles for Black actors were available. He became the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar in 1963 for Lillies of the Field, but also frequently received criticism for playing roles perceived as overly chaste and stately. Poitier persisted nonetheless, and later directed his own films, such as Buck and the Preacher (1972), starring his friend Harry Belafonte and Ruby Dee, and the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor prison break comedy Stir Crazy (1980). The prolific critic, programmer, and filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich also died on Thursday.
- 1/12/2022
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"Plants may sweat profusely but never sully themselves."—W.H. AudenFull Bloom is a series, written by Patrick Holzapfel and illustrated by Ivana Miloš, that reconsiders plants in cinema. Directors have given certain flowers, trees or herbs special attention for many different reasons. It’s time to give them the credit they deserve and highlight their contributions to cinema, in full bloom.It’s impossible to miss the sunflowers in Agnès Varda’s not-quite-as-sunny-as-it-seems Le bonheur (1965). They appear right in the title sequence of the film, accompanied by title cards in the yellow of the flowers. Throughout the film they reappear in different shapes and forms, for example on dresses, postcards, and in bouquets. Varda’s film not only deals with a man perfectly happy with both his wife and his mistress, she deals with the way this world may look in his mind. Shot in beautiful colours by cinematographers...
- 1/4/2021
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Close-Up Film Centre has acquired and revived Vertigo Magazine, one of the most important film-related publications in the UK. Launched in 1993, Vertigo went silent two years ago, but Issue 30 makes for one hell of a comeback. The title: "Godard Is" — and, as Damien Sanville writes in the opening editorial, "His oeuvre is, just as color is…. Godard is one if not the most influential filmmaker to explore the role of the moving image within aesthetics, politics and history. His work represents in its most emblematic way the crossover between the poetical and the historical, cinema and the arts, which will also be at the core of our publication. A 'double bind,' Guattari's crayfish."
A quick run-through: Frieda Grafe on Vivre sa vie (1962); David Brancaleone at considerable length on the "Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art" and Adrian Martin on the 2006 exhibition Voyage(s) en utopie,...
A quick run-through: Frieda Grafe on Vivre sa vie (1962); David Brancaleone at considerable length on the "Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art" and Adrian Martin on the 2006 exhibition Voyage(s) en utopie,...
- 4/12/2012
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