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Agnès Varda | The Cultural Cat
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“This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.”

– Agnès Varda, Director

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Agnès Varda and cats – Ernest Chan Chi Wah (Film Critic)
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As in L’une chante, l’autre pas (One Sings, The Other Doesn’t, 1976), the exploration of feminine identities and perspectives has always been a central theme in Varda’s works, whereas the notion of time, memory and death are also recurrent. Besides, cat has been a distinctive element throughout. Cats were seen everywhere in her debut La Pointe Courte and became both the witness and symbol of the male-female relationships. When Varda talked about her good friend Chris Marker In Les plages d’Agnès（The Beaches of Agnès, 2008）, it was his catoonish surrogate, a Guillaume-en-Egypte with orange fur that appeared on screen. The production house Ciné-Tamaris, funded at the time of the making of La pointe courte, alsohas Varda’s own cat Zgougou appearing on its emblem. In her short film Le lion volatil (The Vanishing Lion, 2003), the lion statue on Place of Denfert-Rochereau was replaced with Zgougou since the cat symbolized calmness and the looming change. With shells and paper flowers, she created the video installation work Le Tombeau de Zgougou (The Tomb of Zgougou, 2006) when her beloved cat passed away.

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HOMMAGE à ZGOUGOU // Agnès Varda - YouTube
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The Wife: A Nobel Prize winner exposed - World Socialist Web Site

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The Wife: A Nobel Prize winner exposed

By Benjamin Mateus
3 November 2018

Directed by Björn Runge, written by Jane Anderson, based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer.

“All you are going for is what feels human, and it transcends a political moment, it predates a political moment, it’s like what happens between people, in this case between women,” Meg Woltzier, author of The Wife.

The Wife, directed by Swedish filmmaker Björn Runge, has generally been met with accolades. Virtually every film critic has given Glenn Close—playing the part of Joan Castleman, the “Wife” in question—rave reviews and many have predicted she might win an Oscar. The new film is adapted from American writer Meg Wolitzer’s 2003 novel of the same title.

Video Games Do Guilt Better Than Any Other Art - Facts So Romantic
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The idea that motion pictures can be works of art has been around since the 1920s, and it hasn’t really been disputed since. It’s easy to see why—cinema shares characteristics with theater in terms of acting, direction, music, set design, narrative, and so on. Now we have whole academic departments dedicated to film appreciation, to understanding the emotional and intellectual responses—deep feelings of awe and reverence, among others—that movies can elicit. But video games aren’t assumed to be as artistic as cinema or theater, if it all. In 2010, for instance, the late film critic Roger Ebert wrote an essay titled, “Video Games Can Never Be Art.” But with the increasing sophistication, and variety, of video games today, it’s becoming more and more clear that they are forms of art; or, at (...)

The debate about the realism and violence in ’12 Years a Slave’
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While showered with acclaim and awards, “12 Years a Slave” (2 nights ago it won 2 Bafta Awards-ed) has been criticised on a couple of counts. #FILM critic Armond White called it “torture porn” and accused McQueen of turning slavery into a “horror show”, and of confusing history with brutality, violence and misery. Another critic lamented the absence […]

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When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie met #Sweden
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Last Sunday the #Göteborg International Film Festival and International Writers’ Stage Gothenburg co-hosted a conversation between Nigerian author #Chimamanda_Adichie-Ngozi and Swedish film critic #Jannike_Åhlund (JÅ). It got weird quickly.

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