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Chris Darke

Art/Form: Antonioni at the Cinémathèque Française

By Chris Darke
July 13, 2015
An illuminating show mixes the media of the maestro's work in painting, photography, and film to uncover his metaphysics of the image

First Person Singular

By Chris Darke
April 16, 2015
Agnès Varda’s parallel career as a short-film essayist

Softcore Satisfaction

By Chris Darke
October 27, 2014
Slow Cinema runs out of time

Slowly But Surely

By Chris Darke
November 4, 2013
Locarno holds steady with films that reward a patient eye

Uneasy Listening

By Chris Darke
April 28, 2013
In Berberian Sound Studio the making of a horror film becomes the unmaking of a man

Interview: Adam Curtis

By Chris Darke
July 17, 2012
The accompanying interview to Chris Darke's feature on Adam Curtis, appearing in the July/August 2012 issue

Systems Analyst

By Chris Darke
July 5, 2012
Secret histories of the modern age, or just good yarns? Adam Curtis discusses his essay-film collage aesthetic

Why Cahiers Still Matters

By Chris Darke
June 6, 2011
Chris Darke on Cahiers continued relevance

Chris Marker: Eyesight

By Chris Darke
June 2, 2011
Chris Darke unearths Marker's "lost works"

Chris Marker: The Invisible Man

By Chris Darke
June 2, 2011
Who is Chris Marker? Better to ask “How many Chris Markers have there been?”

Sweet Bird of Youth

By Chris Darke
May 31, 2011
Why Kes, Ken Loach’s tale of a working-class boy who raises a kestrel, is an English classic

Films of Ruin and Rapture

By Chris Darke
May 31, 2011
In Search of Jean-Daniel Pollet

Review: Yella

By Chris Darke
May 27, 2011
(Christian Petzold, Germany, 2007)