Etudes

Si Laurel et Hardy sont devenus le duo comique le plus célèbre du cinéma, leur vie privée, en revanche, demeure méconnue. Qui se cachait derrière le masque des deux compères ? La biographie complète et illustrée de deux vedettes dont le succès planétaire avait envahi la vie privée.

La Sociologie filmique propose une exploration des ressources intellectuelles offertes par l’hybridation de la sociologie et du cinéma : pratiquer la sociologie, ou d’autres sciences humaines, par l’image et le son. À l’ère de l’image, cet essai invite aux recherches sociologiques, non seulement par la maîtrise de la démarche de la discipline, mais aussi par l’apprentissage conjoint des techniques (prises de vues et de sons, dérushage, montage, etc.) et de l’écriture cinématographiques. La sociologie filmique participe ainsi à la reconnaissance du sensible et du point de vue situé, dans une discipline qui les a souvent tenus à l’écart.

Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

Released in 1942, the film won 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and featured unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
The book offers a rich account of the film’s origins, the myths and realities behind its production, and the reasons it remains so revered today.

Through extensive research and interviews with film-makers, Noah Isenberg explores he ways in which the film continues to dazzle audiences and saturate popular culture 75 years after its release.

John Boorman is one of the cinema’s authentic visionaries, drawn to myths and dreams. The undisputed heir to David Lean, his films, such as Point Blank, Deliverance and Excalibur, exhibit a continual search for the truth that only art can convey.

In Conclusions Boorman summarises what he has learned about the craft of film-making, and wishes to pass on to the next generation of film-makers. Into this tapestry of cinematic memories, he also weaves the story of his kith and kin, including the death of his cherished elder daughter, and an evocation of the forest of trees that he has planted as his final legacy.

A rare, intimate portrait of Hollywood’s reigning ‘blockbuster auteur’ whose deeply personal billion-dollar movies have established him as the most successful director to come out of the British Isles since Alfred Hitchcock.
More than just the tinkerings of a glass watchmaker, Christopher Nolan’s films have an unerring grasp of the way time makes us feel. Time steals people away in his films, and he takes careful note of the theft. Time is Nolan’s great antagonist, his lifelong nemesis. He seems almost to take it personally.