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  • Coming clean by Theodor Adorno

    Coming clean by Theodor Adorno

    To find out whether a person means us well there is one almost infallible criterion: how he passes on unkind or hostile remarks about us.

  • They, the people.

    They, the people.

    "In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."

  • Histoire du cinéma

    Histoire du cinéma

    With the death of Jean-Luc Godard on the 13th September at the age of 91, cinema lost one of its most important and consistently radical practitioners. Here, Andrew Key looks at his formally innovative late work, including Histoire(s) du cinéma, his monumental eight-part 266-minute experimental video series made between 1988 and 1998.

  • The End of Cinema

    The End of Cinema

    Jean-Luc Godard, the pioneering director who died on the 13th September at the age of 91, began his career with a pioneering series of films, a magnificent run that included the masterpieces À bout de souffle, Vivre sa Vie, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou, Masculin Féminin and Week-end. Jared Marcel Pollen charts Godard's early career, and the intersection of literature and cinema in it.