WRITINGS ON CINEMA
Renoir’s Journal
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Nº 002
It burned. It didn’t.
Welles’ 1938 comedy was written off in a fire until a print surfaced in an Italian warehouse.
- Welles
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Nº 003
Lawrence, and the Stories About Lawrence
The most imitated cut in cinema, beside 2001’s bone into spaceship, began as a placeholder for a dissolve.
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Lean
- Coates
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Nº 004
Hara’s Retirement
Japan’s most beloved actress stopped at forty-three and spent fifty-two years unseen in Kamakura.
- Hara
- Tokyo Story
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Nº 005
Giorgio Armani’s Touch in Cinema
GoodFellas, Casino, The Social Network, the Bruce Wayne suits; Giorgio Armani’s involvement in films.
- GoodFellas
- The Social Network
- The Dark Knight
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Nº 007
Jack, 1974
Time’s fact-checkers told Jack Nicholson his sister was his mother, while Chinatown played its twist in theaters.
- Nicholson
- Chinatown
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Nº 008
The license and the record
Four years apart, for the same director, De Niro earned a real taxi license and a real boxing record.
- De Niro
- Scorsese
- Taxi Driver
- Raging Bull
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Nº 009
The banned masterpiece
Two governments on opposite sides of the same war agreed on one thing: The Rules of the Game had to be banned.
- Renoir
- The Rules of the Game
- Grand Illusion
