Dispatch from Cannes 2012 #3: David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS
Here we go again. Only a few days ago we had Walter Salles’ lumbering, rigidly faithful film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Now we have David Cronenberg’s equally[…]
Author: Ronald Bergan
Ronald Bergan is a film historian, critic, lecturer, and a regular contributor to The Guardian. He is a former vice president of Fipresci, for which he has been president of the jury at numerous film festivals and has chaired and participated in many conferences on cinema all over the world. He has held a Chair at the Florida International University in Miami, where he taught film history and theory. Among his many books are Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict; Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise; The Coen Brothers; Francis Coppola: The Making of His Movies; The Eyewitness Guide to Film (published in eight languages), and Francois Truffaut Interviews, which he edited.
Dispatch from Cannes 2012 #2: Walter Salles’s ON THE ROAD
Among the great might-have-beens of cinema are Greta Garbo as Dorian Gray, Ingmar Bergman directing Barbra Streisand in The Merry Widow, Orson Welles’s The Heart of Darkness, Sergei Eisenstein’s An[…]
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Dispatches from Cannes 2011 #3: Le Gamin au Velo (The Kid with a Bike)
DATELINE CANNES, May 18, 2011. The films of Belgian brothers Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne give new meaning to the term motion picture. Their protagonists are continually on the move,[…]
Dispatches from Cannes 2011 #2: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
DATELINE CANNES, May 13, 2011. On approaching a Terrence Malick film, it has seemed impossible to avoid mentioning the long gaps between the films (20 years between Days of Heaven[…]
Dispatches from Cannes 2011: #1: Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris
DATELINE CANNES, May 13, 2011: When watching Woody Allen movies in the past, I was always reminded of a remark John Updike makes of one of his characters: “He thought[…]
Book review: From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond, by Vijaya Mulay
From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond: Images of India in International Films of the 20th Century, by Vijaya Mulay. London, New York, and Calcutta: Seagull. 2010. Trade paperback. $39.95.[…]
Book Review: From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond: Images of India in International Films of the 20th Century, by Vijaya Mulay
Like the majority of people who have never been to India, most of my knowledge of the country has come from some books but mostly from films. When I was[…]
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