Maria Paradinas

Oct 12, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Ian Penman |Elena Lazic |Maria Paradinas |David Robinson

News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets is the musical equivalent of a jump cut – spliced-in gunshots and exclamation marks and double takes of music cut to the rhythm of an unpredictable psychopathology, the jukebox mantra of rock/pop music echoing the movie’s mood and fist swings. Mean Streets deals with characters Charlie, Johnny Boy, Tony and Michael – who are no longer boys, but not yet men.

Oct 11, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Elena Lazic |Maria Paradinas |David Robinson |Kieron Corless

Werner Herzog has many great films to his name, but these days he has become perhaps even more famous as a cultural figure or meme than as a director. In The Ecstatic Truth, the extensive exhibition about Herzog and his work that ran from June to October this year at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, that dispiriting fact was turned to its own advantage. In the first room were three screens featuring extracts from Herzog’s own films and from documentaries about him.

Oct 11, 2023 | bfi.org.uk | Maria Paradinas |Elena Lazic |David Robinson |Kieron Corless

Khabur begins with a series of photographs seen through a magnifying glass. They are of Tell Halaf, an archaeological site in the valley of the Khabur River in north-eastern Syria. Taken to document the excavation led and financed by German diplomat, ancient historian and archaeologist Baron Max von Oppenheim from 1911 to 1913 and again in 1927 to 1929, these photographs form an ideological arm of the archaeological campaign.