Tale of Cinema

Dennis Lim

Hong Sangsoo

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Collected Stories: Ben Rivers

Helen Oyeyemi

MARINA WARNER

Lynne Tillman

Xiaolu Guo

Kevin Barry

Chloe Aridjis

Iain-Sinclair

M.John Harrison

Irene Solà

Gina Apostol

Daisy Hildyard

Vanessa Onwuemezi

Golan Haji

Nathalie Léger

La Captive - Christine Smallwood

Christine Smallwood

Whit Stillman: Not so long ago: 1 (One Two Many)

Nick Pinkerton

Serge Bozon

A chronicle of the genesis and creation of Memoria, the new film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. After visiting Colombia in 2017, Apichatpong chose the country as the location for his first feature shot outside of his native Thailand. In the following two years, he returned for several visits and travelled extensively, listening to the stories of the people he met along the way. The book 'Memoria' gathers the memories he collected, in the form of photographs, a personal diary and sketchbook, research notes, treatment excerpts, and email correspondence.

Memoria

Arts & Photography

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Photography & Video

Is cinema really dying? As movie houses close and corporations dominate, the art form is at risk of changing beyond recognition. In this wide-ranging and elegiac essay, Nick Pinkerton reflects upon Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn, a modern classic haunted by the ghosts and portents of a culture in flux.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn: 1 (Decadent Editions)

Ten shots of the sky, each ten minutes long. That’s all it takes to describe James Benning’s film from 2004. And yet, this simplicity conceals a rich and absorbing drama, one of the great works of the American avant-garde. Scholar and critic Erika Balsom unfolds its hidden intricacies of meaning, extending its lessons with crystalline prose, a comparable sense of depths, and an exhilarating, maximalist intimation of what criticism can do and become. She brings you from the film itself into the mind of the artist, through philosophical musings and art historical scholarship. The book is part of a Decadent Editions series of 10 books about 10 films.

Ten Skies

Erika Balsom

‘Inland Empire’ is a film by David Lynch about a once-feted Hollywood actress who is cast in a movie that is rumoured to be cursed. From a queer, feminist perspective, film critic Melissa Anderson examines how Lynch’s late masterpiece is not only a brilliant evocation of how images work on the mind, but how powerful “acteurs” are in the creation of dreamlike cinema. Laura Dern’s astonishing performance, as the film’s realities splinter and identities multiply, is elucidated by Anderson through her deep affection and respect for Lynch. The book is part of the Decadent Editions series, which examines one film for every year of the 2000s, each a milestone of contemporary cinema.

Inland Empire

Humor & Entertainment

Melissa Anderson

Movies

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