Feature Articles
‘Chromatic Frankenstein’s Monsters?’: Restoration, Colour and Variants of Georges Méliès’s Voyage dans la Lune
The restored edition of ‘the original colour version’ of Voyage dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, 1902/Lobster Films, 2011) opened the Cannes
Bref Magazine, or, A Tribute to Short Films and thus to the Cinema in General
I have been acquainted with the magazine Bref: le magazine du court métrage (1) and have followed its articles on short films for many years
The Films of James Gray: Old Testament Narratives
To enter the film world of James Gray is to enter a closed world of Jewish families, with tensions between family members and frequently failed
The Yet Unclaimed Baggage of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
In a mock recreation of the conditions in the air that pilot William “Whip” Whitaker, played by Denzel Washington in the film Flight (2012), faced,
Wild and Precious –A Film by Bill Mousoulis
At the centre of Wild and Precious (2012) is the character of Giulio Figurelli, an impulsive, impassioned and energetic figure. His vivid, potent, occasionally incoherent
The Desire and the Exception
We could have found many ways to celebrate our 100th Bref edition. We could have chosen to write about one or even many questions, some
Andrew Sarris: The Last of a Kind
“If Sarris became the critic I read and reread more than any other, it was perhaps for the sense that at the centre of his
Features
Chris Marker Special Dossier: My Letter from Siberia by Murray Pomerance Séance “C.M.” by Gavin Keeney Montage as Resonance: Chris Marker and the Dialectical Image by Daniel
My Letter from Siberia
I went with my close friends Steve Miller and Nancy Corwin, sometime in the autumn of 1969 (when I was twenty-three), to see Chris Marker’s
Kubrick Creator: Alchemy in Stanley Kubrick’s Films
How one should turn to stone. – Slowly slowly become hard like a precious stone – and finally lie there still and silent, to the