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Bert Cardullo
in issue 65
Claude Autant-Lara's The Red Inn (L'Auberge Rouge): By André Bazin
in issue 64
Fifteen Years of French Cinema: By André Bazin — "If French cinema was no longer down in the dumps, so the reasoning went, its palette should duly adorn itself with all the colors of the intellectual rainbow. And this is exactly what happened."
"Monsieur Hulot and Time": By André Bazin — "In their blend of social satire, wry charm, imaginative physical gags, and ingenious aural as well as visual devices, Jacques Tati's movies have not been surpassed by those of any other postwar cinematic comic — French or otherwise."
in issue 58
Beyond the Fifth Generation: An Interview with Zhang Yimou — "I know myself, and know that I can't really be separated from the land where I grew up."
in issue 55
The Accidental Auteur: A Dialogue with Abbas Kiarostami — "The fruitful tree bends."
in issue 50
Revisiting Satyajit Ray: An Interview with a Cinema Master — "Everybody has access to me, anyone who wants to see me. . ."
in issue 43
Over Forty: An Interview with Stanley Kauffmann — A legendary film (and theatre) critic looks back over a 40-year-plus career
