Actor Ahmed Ahmedpoor, known for his role as Mohamed Reza Nematzadeh in Abbas Kiarostami’s Where Is the Friend’s House (1987), passed away last Thursday at the age of 46. ❤️

“And by beauty, I mean the tendency to bring about a state or a development that arises from that which is chosen.” – Frans van de Staak

Een nieuwe Sabzian publicatie: 𝘞𝘏𝘖 𝘐𝘚 𝘔𝘌: 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘷𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘴, geschreven door Pasolini in New York tijdens een bezoek aan het NYFF in 1966. Nu beschikbaar via de Sabzian website en in de Passa Portabookshop. → sabzian.be/publication/who-is-me-dichter-van-de-as

Last Thursday at De Cinema, a beautiful screening of Nicolas Philibert’s Être et avoir. Still on Sabzian, two wonderful texts by him: → sabzian.be/text/i-never-decided-to-become-a-documentary-filmmaker%E2%80%A6 → sabzian.be/text/en-sortant-de-l%E2%80%99%C3%A9cole

Tonight, the Frans van de Staak retrospective kicks off at CINEMATEK, in collaboration with Sabzian. → sabzian.be/event/frans-van-de-staak-retrospective

Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry, still available to watch for free for a few more days on mk2curiosity. → mk2curiosity.com/pages/le-film-de-la-semaine

“Cinema is a promise to be one day a citizen of the world.” – Serge Daney Read the introduction to our new issue on Daney’s cinephilic internationalism, by Arta Barzanji and @gerardjanclaes.bsky.social

This issue was compiled by Arta Barzanji and Gerard-Jan Claes (@gerardjanclaes.bsky.social), and appears in conjunction with an eponymous film programma at ICA London, starting at the end of August! → ica.art/serge-daney

New issue on Sabzian! Serge Daney and the Promise of Cinema With contributions by Pierre Eugène, Mónica Delgado, Mohammad Reza Amiri, Emmanuel Burdeau, Christine Pichini, Jun Fujita Hirose, Daniel Fairfax, and a new Daney translation.

Fifty years ago today – 22 May 1975 – ‘Jeanne Dielman’ had its world premiere in Cannes.

My longer text about the work of Johan van der Keuken, taking the “sweet form” of Herman Slobbe as its starting point, is now also available in English on @sabzian.bsky.social.

“This is May 4th.” – Jonas Mekas

Very glad to have translated Jean-Michel Frodon’s wonderful interview with Isabelle Huppert on her work with Hong.

“At the end of the day, making movies is all about sunlight.” - Pasolini

“Caught in the construction of his own realism, everything remains coloured by an impossible probability. Above all, Cooper seems intent on defusing the fiction itself.” @gerardjanclaes.bsky.social on Bradley Cooper's Maestro (2023)

Mirror of Life, a ten-film Manoel de Oliveira retrospective featuring the North American premiere of numerous restorations, begins at BAM on March 28.

A Katharine Hepburn series curated by Molly Haskell, plus: Prewar Naruse, Nordic noir, Lewis Milestone, music docs, Willi Forst, a 1925 sampler … Preview of this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato ! festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/aspettand...

The screening of De grote vakantie [The Long Holiday] (2000) yesterday marked the end of the Johan van der Keuken retrospective in Brussels, jointly organized by @sabzian.bsky.social and @cinematek.bsky.social. Thank you to all the audience members who have followed the program since November!

« Les drogues nous ennuient avec leur paradis. Qu’elles nous donnent plutôt un peu de savoir. » Henri Michaux, Connaissance par les gouffres

I never knew Paulo Rocha worked as an assistant to Renoir

I am looking for the origin of this quote by Jean Grémillon: “Who could fail to sense the greatness of this art, in which the visible is the sign of the invisible?” Anyone have an idea where I could find it?

New online release on Avila: JE, TU, IL, ELLE (1974) by Chantal Akerman → avilafilm.be/en/film/je-tu-il-elle-0

→ www.cinemateca.pt/Cinemateca/Noticias/Lancamento-de-novo-volume-das-folhas-de-Cinematec.aspx