Casually Radical: Three Films by Jacques Rozier Tope Ogundare October 2018 The Second Generation: French Cinema After the New Wave Issue 88 There it is, on this year’s Venice Classics lineup: Adieu Philippine (1962), Jacques Rozier’s loose-limbed debut about a young TV technician’s dalliance with a pair of Parisian girlfriends as he awaits...
The Last Laugh (F.W. Murnau, 1924) Tope Ogundare June 2018 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 87 The porter of the Atlantic Hotel is not a rich man, nor is he one of any cashable power or privilege. But when he dons his oddly warlike uniform, he is a dead ringer for Emperor Wilhelm I (surely no mere...
