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Violet Lucca

Video Essay: Altman TV

By Violet Lucca
January 28, 2015
Where did Robert Altman come from? A rare look at the great filmmaker's early television works that helped shape his inimitable style

Interview: Abderrahmane Sissako

By Violet Lucca
January 23, 2015
Of time and the city: the director of Timbuktu and Bamako talks about framing Africa on screen

Review: Medeas

By Violet Lucca
January 16, 2015
Euripides' tragedy gets transposed to America's heartland, but what happens when you flip the gender of the classic's characters?

Short Takes: Predestination

By Violet Lucca
January 5, 2015
(Michael & Peter Spierig, Australia, 2014)

Fassbinder Diary #3: Querelle

By Violet Lucca
December 3, 2014
Fragile masculinity: on the electric strangeness of the director's final film

Fassbinder Diary #2: In a Year of 13 Moons

By Violet Lucca
November 26, 2014
Someone else's boy: tracing the complex interplay between grief and self-loathing in one of the auteur's finest films

Interview: Chienn Hsiang

By Violet Lucca
November 25, 2014
Pretty hurts: the director of Exit speaks about working-class existential crises and working with Golden Horse winner Chen Shiang-chyi

Fassbinder Diary #1: Rio das Mortes

By Violet Lucca
November 18, 2014
The first in a series chronicling the second half of Film Society of Lincoln Center's Fassbinder retrospective

Site Specifics: colonialfilm.org.uk

By Violet Lucca
November 1, 2014
Empirical Proof

Short Takes: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

By Violet Lucca
October 30, 2014
(Ana Lily Amirpour, U.S., 2014)

Interview: Ruben Östlund

By Violet Lucca
October 21, 2014
Psych 101: the director of Force Majeure describes his love for YouTube and philosophical debate

Interview: Alice Rohrwacher

By Violet Lucca
October 10, 2014
The director of The Wonders talks about her ineffably lovely family drama and why problems can be a good thing to have

Festivals: Midnight Sun

By Violet Lucca
September 11, 2014
Up all night: the summer festival above the Arctic Circle where there's 24 hours of daylight and movies

Site Specifics: cléo

By Violet Lucca
September 8, 2014
Fair Share

Sound + Vision 2014: Pulp

By Violet Lucca
August 6, 2014
Common cause: Pulp (the band) gets their name in lights in Pulp (the documentary)

Short Takes: Mood Indigo

By Violet Lucca
July 21, 2014
(Michel Gondry, France/Belgium, 2013)

Interview: Fellipe Barbosa

By Violet Lucca
July 14, 2014
The director of Casa Grande talks about race, class, and Lula

Site Specifics: Toronto Film Review

By Violet Lucca
June 30, 2014

While the stark design bespeaks utilitarian concerns rather than voguish minimalism, a great deal of care is put into this particular public scrapbook. Curated by unabashed Francophile David Davidson, the “found” items on Toronto Film…

Review: One Day Pina Asked…

By Violet Lucca
June 6, 2014
Chantal Akerman's enduring, intimate portrait of Pina Bausch and her dancers

Interview: Lukas Moodysson

By Violet Lucca
May 28, 2014
What gloom? The director of We Are the Best! talks about his positive punks