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Happy 89th, JLG.

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Ingmar Bergman by Irving Penn, 1965.

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Japanese B5 for François Truffaut's THE 400 BLOWS.

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Jacques Rivette, age 23. Photograph by François Truffaut!

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Catherine Deneuve and Yves Saint Laurent, 1976.

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Agnès Varda visits Dephine Seyrig and Alain Resnais, behind the scenes of Last Year at Marienbad, 1961.

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Jean Cocteau by Man Ray, behind the scenes of The Blood of a Poet, c. 1930.

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“I love slasher films, but they don’t love me back. Being a woman who is interested in genre cinema means that she is in a constant game of negotiation with the films that she is watching. She will search for images to reclaim for herself or find the truth of a character who may only be in the film to get hacked to bits by the latest knife-wielding madman. To understand why she gravitates toward movies which often hold no respect or common decency for her gender it becomes necessary to ask the question: ‘How does a woman watch anything?’”

Willow Catelyn Maclay embarks on a new column devoted to women in genre cinema at Notebook.

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Luis Ospina by Oscar Monsalve, 1999.

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At Notebook, our movie poster columnist Adrian Curry selects his favorite posters of the decade.

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PJ Harvey by Anton Corbijn, 1994. A Dog Called Money is now in UK cinemas & on MUBI:

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Isabelle Huppert, 1994.

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Elaine May shooting A New Leaf, 1971.

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First poster for Wong Kar-wai's TV series/feature film Blossoms.

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“Looking over his body of work as a whole again, it is clear that the prevailing idea in all of Ghatak's movies is the impenetrability of other worlds. His are characters trapped at the margins of geographical, social, or psychic borders that themselves prove insurmountable. Staring out over the limits of their lives, these people, like Ghatak, are defeated by the sheer force required to cross these boundaries.”

In light of a career retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center, Christopher Small offers a short primer on the films and influence of Ritwik Ghatak. 

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Kurt Russell, behind the scenes of Escape from New York.

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Julie Delpy by Stéphane Coutelle, 1990.