(Ed. Note: This was originally published in Image Facts.) In the production notes for To Be and To Have, Philibert writes: “I don’t know what you think but when it comes to summing up a documentary, all one can do is refer back to the subject. This invariably leads to such sentences as: it’s a film on […]

(Ed. Note: This was originally published in Image Facts.) “[Films are]…polemical statements against the American ‘barrel down’ cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent questions instead of false (because too quick) answers, for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness, for provocation and dialogue instead of consumption […]

(Ed. Note: This was originally published at Image Facts.) All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened. – Hemingway Mark Moskowitz tossed a copy of a book named The Stones of Summer in a box when he was a teenager. A review he had read of the book […]