LYON, France — Director Nicolas Winding Refn on Monday announced an ambitious new online project at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon that will showcase restored films and other content with the aim of inspiring a new
generation of cinephiles.
The discussion, led by Film Comment Digital Editor Violet Lucca, touches on modern audiences» emotional distance from older works, the enduring power of the film medium, and the particular experience of younger
generations of cinephiles.
Not exact matches
A Lover's Discourse was published in 1977, three years before Barthes's death and eleven years before Denis made her first feature, and he was certainly a known quantity among the Parisian
cinephile generation of the 1970s, when Denis was coming
of age — for example, before starring in Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (1973), Françoise Lebrun was a contributor to his journal Communications, and several critics, including Alain Philippon, have speculated as to Barthes's influence on the lovers» dialogues in Eustache's movie.
Come January, there's no place a
cinephile would rather be than the Sundance Film Festival, where scrappy indie auteurs jostle alongside an upcoming
generation of heat - seekers.
I've often referred to 1994 as Year Zero for
cinephiles of my
generation.