Der Nisters Work 1907-1929: A Study of a Yiddish Symbolist (Contacts : Serie Three Etudes Et Documents Volume 11)
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
By Dan Callahan "I'm not an apparition," insists Delphine Seyrig in Truffaut's Stolen Kisses (1968), "I'm a woman." While we would like to give her the benefit of the doubt, there can be no denying that Seyrig is the most ghostly of actresses, haunting her own movies with a druggy, dazed quality over which she placed a severe intellectual patina. Something as...
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In 1962 Alain Resnais’ film Last Year at Marienbad aka L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) debuted in America and apparently made quite a splash with film critics as well as fashionistas. As the following fashion article from ‘62 makes clear, women were obviously inspired by the lovely Delphine Seyrig and attempted to mimic her look [...]
a456 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig) Slowly, Surely Peeling Potatoes, from Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975) ( Source ) "Here you will learn an extremely important truth", writes Charles Fourier in his delirious Theory of the Four Movements ( Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales ) (1808)....
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... side trips to variations by James Ivory, John Schlesinger, and others By Barry Wurst II Actors Delphine Seyrig: The Eternal Return "Seyrig is capable of stopping an entire film with one decisive physical gesture, one smile, one glare, one sound from her smoky, murmuring voice." By Dan Callahan Sean Connery: A "Natural Thrust" "Connery, never a martyr...
