Issue 60 | October 2011
“I have this special issue of Cahiers du cinéma in front of me”: Remembering Claudine Paquot (1951-2011)
Framed as an introduction to her translation of Serge Toubiana’s tribute, Bérénice Reynaud pays homage to Claudine Paquot, long time head-of-publications at Cahiers
Claudine Paquot, My Friend for Thirty Years
The former editor of Cahiers du cinéma pays tribute to his colleague and friend
Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011): The Carnivorous Eye
Jacopetti’s fame will always be tied to the phenomenal success of Mondo Cane; a ground breaking film in more ways than could have been anticipated
Either and Or: On Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life
Terrence Malick’s poetic and ambiguous film has for the most part divided critics. Moritz Pfeifer offers his thoughts on a film where choosing sides may
godard english cannes: The Reception of Film Socialisme‘s “Navajo English” Subtitles
Samuel Bréan, founding member of the French Association of Audiovisual Translators, offers some absorbing insights in to Godard’s subtitling strategies
She Works Hard for the Money: Women and Fashion in Weimar Cinema
The socio-cultural currents that informed the Weimer Republic have always provided a fascinating backdrop to German silent cinema. This article weaves a range of issues
Cowboys & Aliens: The Exhaustion of History & the Re-Genesis of Illusions
Joseph Natoli digs into this genre-blending hybrid of a film, which inadvertently has much to say about America’s fading sense of history.
Biting Back at the Machine: Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times
Gregory Stephens provides an indepth analysis of Chaplin’s classic allegory on the machine-age
Kansas: Towards a Rhetoric of the 1980s Farm Debt Crisis and the New Depression Film
How much damage did the policies of the Reagan administration inflict on American rural communities? Stephen Larson provides the answers
“Westalgie” in Leander Haußmann’s Herr Lehmann
A supposed nostalgia for the old West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall has made its appearance in a number of films. Dorothea