"With the former film inspiring a plethora of homages (most notably, Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys) and the latter spawning a style of free-form cinema diary that would later be evoked in films by Agnès Varda and Jonathan Caouette, among many others, Marker's role as a pioneer in the latter half of the 20th century is hardly arguable."
At the end of the day, the goal of IONCINEMA.com is to celebrate and promote the process, and this is why Ismailos' Great Directors might interest our readers - she interviews such auteurs as Bernardo Bertolucci, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, David Lynch, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater, Haynes and Sayles.
A bizarre kind of news day highlighted by House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, Spartan and Redbelt helmer taking on Anne Frank, followed by Rocky/Rambo director Sylvester Stallone joining previous winners Takeshi Kitano, Agnes Varda and Abbas Kiarostami for the Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the upcoming edition of the Venice Film Festival.
This is Cannes Film Festival's third invite (second time competition) to veteran American indie filmmaker Richard Linklater. Oddly his first visit was almost two...