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Jane B. par Agnès V. (Agnès Varda, 1988)

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A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951)

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Not that there's anything wrong with that! Rosanna Arquette in After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)

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City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

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Exactly 125 years ago, 22 March 1895, L. Lumière projected La sortie de l’usine, the first film in history, for about 10 people. For this occasion, Sabzian publishes fragments from Coissac’s Histoire du cinématographe: “The power of illusion!” ►

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Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) ►

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Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)

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Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)

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Sud pralad [Tropical Malady] (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)

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Following the launch of our new website, we are delighted to be able to present Chantal Akerman’s Le déménagement (1993) for 48 hours, worldwide available and with English subtitles! ►

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“Cinephilia is always about thought, always about theory, always about criticism. If it’s not about those things, it’s just a load of nonsense about devising best-film lists and seeing six thousand movies.” – @AdrianMartin25 🔎

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🗃 New Collection on Harun Farocki, ‘Reality Would Have to Begin’, with 7 texts and 6 film pages. ►

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Khane-ye doust kodjast? [Where Is the Friend’s Home?] (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987) ►

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The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1966)

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🗃 New Collection on Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, with 12 texts and interviews, and a complete annotated filmography (55 film pages). ►

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Sans Soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)

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"I believe in a type of cinema that gives greater possibilities and time to its audience. A half-created cinema, an unfinished cinema that attains completion through the creative spirit of the audience, so resulting in hundreds of films." - Abbas Kiarostami #BornOnThisDay

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Voyage à travers le cinéma français (Bertrand Tavernier, 2016)

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The latest issue of the filmmagazine Balthazar is dedicated to the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, and includes new interview and texts, and a fully annotated filmography. The complete pdf is freely accessible on the website of Balthazar: ►

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Hôtel du Nord (Marcel Carné, 1938)

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STATE OF CINEMA 2022 IS ONLINE! Wang Bing's 'The State of Chinese Independent Film', is available in Chinese, English, French and Dutch: ► ZH ► EN ► NL ► FR

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Crash (David Cronenberg, 1996) ►

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Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965), one of our selected films to watch online this week! ▸

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Alice Diop’s State of Cinema, available in French, English and Dutch

State of Cinema 2023, Alice Diop, 2023

The cinema that has always interested me the most and which nourishes me is a cinema which takes its time and makes you wait. It’s one that is generally created in the shadows, on the margins, on the...

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“The most expressive, most heartbreaking moment in Wendy and Lucy involves a small sum of money changing hands, a gesture that encapsulates both Ms. Reichardt’s humanism and her unsentimental sense of economic reality.” – A.O. Scott

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Zazie dans le métro (Louis Malle, 1960)

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Jean-Marie Straub (1933-2022)

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Chris Marker, the French writer, critic, photographer, scriptwriter, filmmaker, photo editor, media artist and cartoonist/blogger, was born 100 years ago today. ►

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Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)

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Manhunter (Michael Mann, 1986)

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The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

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🔍 Read the story behind Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) and the original newspaper article, largely comprised of a lengthy interview with Hossein Sabzian. ► Screening this Sunday 29/08 at @cinemagaleries !

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As a response to Jean-Luc Godard’s statement “We don’t know how to film sexual relations”, Nicole Brenez and Luc Vialle have concocted L’image des plaisirs, a programme of 216 films, from 11 to 28 May in the Cinémathèque française. ►

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On the occasion of yesterday’s screening of In Vanda's Room, we have compiled all of our existing texts on Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa into a new Collection. ►

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From Sans soleil (1983)

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L’argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)

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“Just as with very big things, you do not explain Johnny Guitar. You tell it (see it) again, again and again, like stories are told to children, until everything is known by heart and you learn that everything in them is right” - João Bénard da Costa ►

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L’amour de la jeunesse (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2011)

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“Previously, images were in the world. Today, it is the world that is swimming in an ocean of images.” The State of Cinema 2021 by Nicole Brenez, titled ‘Projections. Provisoires. Provisions’, is now on Sabzian. ►

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“1987. Back to Chicago. During a seminar, I see Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest. A turning point. I give up experimental video-art and move on to storytelling. That is when I understand that classic cinema can bring happiness.” - Hong Sang-soo ►

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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972) ►

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Ma nuit chez Maud (Éric Rohmer, 1969)

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Sommaren Med Monika (Ingmar Bergman, 1953)

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Our new website is now online! 🎉 This brand new design ultimately turned out to be a long-term effort and we would first and foremost like to thank our designer @DirkDeblauwe for the wonderful work! Explore! →

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Mes petites amoureuses (Jean Eustache, 1974)

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Il Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)

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After a dispute which long hindered the distribution of his works, the entire filmography of French filmmaker Jean Eustache will undergo meticulous restoration in the coming months. Read our note here: ►

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JLG/JLG - autoportrait de décembre (Jean-Luc Godard, 1994)

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New Frieda Grafe translation, on the films of Carl Theodor Dreyer: ‘Spiritual Gentlemen and Natural Ladies’ (1974) ►

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“Over the past decade, I was occasionally prompted to speak on Wang Bing’s film West of the Tracks (2002), which I don’t just consider a great movie but a cinematographic event that changes the state of things we still call 'cinema'.” – Jean-Louis Comolli

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De weg naar het zuiden (Johan van der Keuken, 1981)

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For six years now, Sabzian has asked a guest to write a State of Cinema. This Collection brings together all the texts of the previous editions: Sarah Vanagt, Claudio Pazienza, Olivier Assayas, Nicole Brenez and Wang Bing. Available in multiple languages!

COLLECTION: State of Cinema

For six years now, Sabzian has asked a guest to write a State of Cinema, a text that holds cinema up to the light, an invitation to reflect on what cinema means, could mean, or should mean today. T...

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The State of Cinema 2021 by Nicole Brenez, now on !

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Cléo de 5 à 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) ►

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No quarto da Vanda [In Vanda’s Room] (Pedro Costa, 2000) ►

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Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)

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The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980)

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In the coming months, Sabzian will publish a dozen new translations of the work of the German film critic Frieda Grafe, the “queen of German film criticism”!

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📝 New translation! Tattooed Reality. Zéro de conduite and L’Atalante by Jean Vigo by Frieda Grafe and Enno Patalas. Translated by Sis Matthé. ►

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“I want to speak to you about Chantal. To tell you everything she gave me, everything she taught me, everything we shared. To tell you how she was: luminous, intelligent, surprising, and funny too” - C. Atherton 6 years ago, Chantal Akerman passed away. ►

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The layoffs at the International Film Festival Rotterdam | @IFFR of almost all senior or long-time programmers provoked a debate about the future of the festival and the precarity of the profession of festival programmers. ►

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Saint Omer (Alice Diop, 2022)

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🗓️ JUNE 26 at 8pm CET 📜 STATE OF CINEMA 2020 📜 'Cinema in the Present Tense’ by OLIVIER ASSAYAS We cordially invite everyone to experience this online edition "together" on ! >>>

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El sol del membrillo [The Quince Tree Sun] (Victor Erice, 1992)

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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)

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New text: ‘In Vanda’s Room’ by João Bénard da Costa

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“The audience was with him once, when he made the most beautiful French film of the decade, The Mother and the Whore. Without him, we would have no face to set to the memory of the lost children of May '68.” Serge Daney

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Canadian painter, jazz pianist, photographer, sculptor and filmmaker Michael Snow passed away on 5 January. ►

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"Pasolini looks at what is happening in the world with unflinching lucidity. (There are angels drawn by Rembrandt who have the same gaze.) And he does so because reality is all we have to love. There’s nothing else." - John Berger #BOTD Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 - 1975)

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“Between 2010 & 2011, filmmakers and artists José Luis Guérin and Jonas Mekas exchanged 9 video letters. The result was a feature-length film of infinite tenderness, assembling a personal diary, travelogues and key reflections about images.” - N. Brenez 🔎

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L’amour en fuite (François Truffaut, 1979)

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Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian [A Brighter Summer Day] (Edward Yang, 1991)

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“When I read the American critic Manny Farber’s text about an indispensable experimental film, I noticed that there was something extraordinary. A way of adjectivizing that which seemed ungraspable after having seen it.” - @criticademonica ►

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Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)

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📚Just published: the latest edition of our seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications, compiled by @RubenDemasure . Happy New Year! ►

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Today, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami (1940 – 2016), would have turned 80! Our name "Sabzian" refers to the main character of his 1990 film Nema-ye nazdik [Close-Up].

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Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, 1975)

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Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1958)

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“Ozu is a Zen filmmaker who, in the position of the one who looks and waits, does not want to change the world, but makes himself flat and indifferent like a surface of water, ready for the impressions of the world.” – Frieda Grafe

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Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa [Oki’s Movie] (Hong Sang-soo, 2010)

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Louis Valentin: "Why are your films so scandalous?" Pier Paolo Pasolini: "Because I am scandalous, as I explained before. I am scandalous because I have a cord, an umbilical cord, between the profane and the sacred."

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Un flic (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1972)

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Letter from Jean-Luc Godard to Maurice Pialat regarding Van Gogh (1991), one of our three selected films this week! ►

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Le rayon vert (Éric Rohmer, 1986) ►

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“To me, Memoria presents the entanglement of memories, personal and collective. Jessica wakes up as an empty shell and absorbs memories of people and places. She’s the spirit of nothingness. She’s an amplifier (or as Hernan puts it, an antenna).” – Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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“Why/how are the images so gorgeously luminous and cadaverously creepy at the same time, a form of possession and dispossession that seems to match perfectly Akerman’s relation to her movie, which she uses like a mirror? Is that the way that we use it, too?” – Jonathan Rosenbaum

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A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)

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Good morning (Yasujirō Ozu, 1959)

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Jean-Marie Straub (1933-2022) in Pedro Costa’s Où gît votre sourire enfoui ? (2001) ►

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Zendegi va digar hich [Life and Nothing More...] (Abbas Kiarostami, 1992)

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Gone to Earth (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1950)

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New on Sabzian: translation of the first chapter of the book included in the French DVD edition of Pedro Costa’ In Vanda’s Room, comprising a conversation between Cyril Neyrat and Costa, images, and collages by Costa and Andy Rector ( @theMummyMa ).

Punk, the Bedroom, Adolescence, Cyril Neyrat, Andy Rector, 2008

Cyril Neyrat: What is the origin of In Vanda’s Room? Pedro Costa: Considering the film as it is now, the form it has, it can only come from things like tiredness and disgust. Not from a search. Nor...

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“… if this tree dies, we cannot make the film, because this tree was also Antigone.” - Danièle Huillet In his contribution to our Passage series, Karel Pletinck discusses the poetic/ethical imperative that fuels the work of Straub-Huillet.

Passage: Karel Pletinck, Karel Pletinck, 2024

That encounters bring forth art is not exceptional, but a moral law being extracted from chance is: contingency brings forth an ethical imperative from which the artist cannot escape, “because this...

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“What is cinema? To this question, ... Assayas gives an answer here that is deceptively simple: cinema is what the filmmaker makes of it, in order to explore, to extract, ... to “regain” and “recover” the living.” - L. Schifano ►

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Vittorio De Sica: "When the projection [of Umberto D.] finished … I looked at Chaplin: everyone else had risen and they were all gesticulating. [...] Two minutes went by. Then he spread out his arms and opened his eyes. I saw he was crying like a baby."