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Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has passed away.
11 August 1941 – 15 September 2026
11 August 1941 – 15 September 2026
September 16, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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The big Autumn 2026 books roundup is out from @sabzian.bsky.social ! sabzian.be/news/new-boo...
September 21, 2026 at 2:44 PM
The big Autumn 2026 books roundup is out from @sabzian.bsky.social ! sabzian.be/news/new-boo...
Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has passed away.
11 August 1941 – 15 September 2026
11 August 1941 – 15 September 2026
September 16, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán has passed away.
11 August 1941 – 15 September 2026
11 August 1941 – 15 September 2026
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September 15, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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“When I was approximately 11 years old and performing the Saturday afternoon ritual of attending the local movie theatre, Flaherty’s Man of Aran unrolled upon the screen and I was suddenly aware of an extraordinary sensation.” – Lionel Rogosin
Flaherty, Lionel Rogosin, 1998
When I was approximately eleven years old and performing the Saturday afternoon ritual of attending the local movie theatre, Flaherty’s Man of Aran unrolled upon the screen and I was suddenly aware of...
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September 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
“When I was approximately 11 years old and performing the Saturday afternoon ritual of attending the local movie theatre, Flaherty’s Man of Aran unrolled upon the screen and I was suddenly aware of an extraordinary sensation.” – Lionel Rogosin
A Conversation with Anne-Marie Miéville, Nicolas Philibert, Lionel Rogosin Retrospective, Jean-Luc Godard in New York, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/5lYDg.
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September 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
A Conversation with Anne-Marie Miéville, Nicolas Philibert, Lionel Rogosin Retrospective, Jean-Luc Godard in New York, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/5lYDg.
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70 years after 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘺, Sabzian and CINEMATEK Brussels invite you to (re)discover the work of American filmmaker Lionel Rogosin.
The retrospective is accompanied by archival materials and new documentaries by his son Michael Rogosin.
The retrospective is accompanied by archival materials and new documentaries by his son Michael Rogosin.
Lionel Rogosin Retrospective
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September 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
70 years after 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘺, Sabzian and CINEMATEK Brussels invite you to (re)discover the work of American filmmaker Lionel Rogosin.
The retrospective is accompanied by archival materials and new documentaries by his son Michael Rogosin.
The retrospective is accompanied by archival materials and new documentaries by his son Michael Rogosin.
“Anne-Marie Miéville often answers questions with a hermetic gracious smile, as if everything we need to know about her is in her film. She’s right, of course.” – Danièle Heymann
New on Sabzian: a conversation with Anne-Marie Miéville, published in 1989
New on Sabzian: a conversation with Anne-Marie Miéville, published in 1989
“We need to talk about what we know”, Danièle Heymann, 1989
She could collect rocks and lace. She could be a harpist or a horsewoman. Lots of elegance, of calm blonde hair. Her first feature film, Mon cher sujet, is a film that talks of women without preciousn...
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September 2, 2026 at 1:10 PM
“Anne-Marie Miéville often answers questions with a hermetic gracious smile, as if everything we need to know about her is in her film. She’s right, of course.” – Danièle Heymann
New on Sabzian: a conversation with Anne-Marie Miéville, published in 1989
New on Sabzian: a conversation with Anne-Marie Miéville, published in 1989
Join us next week for ‘Yasujirō Ozu Now’, an international symposium at the Kansai University Tokyo Center in Tokyo.
Ozu Yasujirō Now
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July 17, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Join us next week for ‘Yasujirō Ozu Now’, an international symposium at the Kansai University Tokyo Center in Tokyo.
A new month, a new cinema cat!
July brings a still from 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 (1981) by Michel Khleifi.
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July brings a still from 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 (1981) by Michel Khleifi.
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July 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
A new month, a new cinema cat!
July brings a still from 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 (1981) by Michel Khleifi.
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July brings a still from 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 (1981) by Michel Khleifi.
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The big summer books roundup is now up @sabzian.bsky.social ! sabzian.be/news/new-boo...
June 26, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The big summer books roundup is now up @sabzian.bsky.social ! sabzian.be/news/new-boo...
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ZIDANE @screenslate.bsky.social, Pedro Costa on Mizoguchi and Tourneur @sabzian.bsky.social, EEPHUS @filmquarterly.bsky.social, Louise Weard (@weard.moe) @ InRO, Alexander Sokurov @nytimes.com …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
June 26, 2026 at 12:32 PM
ZIDANE @screenslate.bsky.social, Pedro Costa on Mizoguchi and Tourneur @sabzian.bsky.social, EEPHUS @filmquarterly.bsky.social, Louise Weard (@weard.moe) @ InRO, Alexander Sokurov @nytimes.com …
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...
Joseph Roth on Cinema, New Book Releases / Summer 2026, Volker Pantenburg on Anne-Marie Miéville, Serge Daney in Persian, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/Yz6la.
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June 29, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Joseph Roth on Cinema, New Book Releases / Summer 2026, Volker Pantenburg on Anne-Marie Miéville, Serge Daney in Persian, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/Yz6la.
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“The function of the mother will no longer be ‘this gigantic scam that consists in reproducing gestures that are never paid.’”
New on Sabzian: Volker Pantenburg on Anne-Marie Miéville’s Papa comme maman (1977)
New on Sabzian: Volker Pantenburg on Anne-Marie Miéville’s Papa comme maman (1977)
Gestures That Are Never Paid, Volker Pantenburg, 2023
Anne-Marie Miéville has always been notoriously shy about the specific character of her collaboration with Godard. In her later work, the films between Le Livre de Marie (1984) and Après la reconcilia...
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June 24, 2026 at 11:36 AM
“The function of the mother will no longer be ‘this gigantic scam that consists in reproducing gestures that are never paid.’”
New on Sabzian: Volker Pantenburg on Anne-Marie Miéville’s Papa comme maman (1977)
New on Sabzian: Volker Pantenburg on Anne-Marie Miéville’s Papa comme maman (1977)
In 2022 and 2025, Pedro Costa visited the Swedish and Danish Cinematheques to present his films and carte blanche picks. On Sabzian, you can read his introductions to Tourneur’s The Fearmakers and Stars in My Crown, and Mizoguchi’s Flame of My Love.
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June 17, 2026 at 9:14 AM
In 2022 and 2025, Pedro Costa visited the Swedish and Danish Cinematheques to present his films and carte blanche picks. On Sabzian, you can read his introductions to Tourneur’s The Fearmakers and Stars in My Crown, and Mizoguchi’s Flame of My Love.
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Le gamin au vélo, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Stéphane Symons, Acción Portabella, This Week’s Agenda: Hôtel Monterey, Elephant, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/BuxXU.
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June 15, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Le gamin au vélo, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Stéphane Symons, Acción Portabella, This Week’s Agenda: Hôtel Monterey, Elephant, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/BuxXU.
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On the occasion of the centenary of filmmaker and political activist Pere Portabella, Filmoteca Española and Filmoteca de Catalunya are organising 'Acció Portabella', a series of activities throughout 2026 and 2027, originating from a wide range of institutions.
An International Programme Celebrating Pere Portabella
Filmoteca Española and Filmoteca de Catalunya celebrate filmmaker and activist Pere portabello with 'Acció Portabella', a series of activities throughout 2026 and 2027.
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June 13, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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On the occasion of the centenary of filmmaker and political activist Pere Portabella, Filmoteca Española and Filmoteca de Catalunya are organising 'Acció Portabella', a series of activities throughout 2026 and 2027, originating from a wide range of institutions.
An International Programme Celebrating Pere Portabella
Filmoteca Española and Filmoteca de Catalunya celebrate filmmaker and activist Pere portabello with 'Acció Portabella', a series of activities throughout 2026 and 2027.
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June 12, 2026 at 11:39 AM
On the occasion of the centenary of filmmaker and political activist Pere Portabella, Filmoteca Española and Filmoteca de Catalunya are organising 'Acció Portabella', a series of activities throughout 2026 and 2027, originating from a wide range of institutions.
”The physical movement of the cycling boy seems to coincide so completely with the formal qualities of the uninterrupted, flowing camera movement that, for several minutes, it appears as if he becomes one with the film image itself.” – Stéphane Symons
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June 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
”The physical movement of the cycling boy seems to coincide so completely with the formal qualities of the uninterrupted, flowing camera movement that, for several minutes, it appears as if he becomes one with the film image itself.” – Stéphane Symons
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“Why does this shot, for me, point to an unmistakable freedom? What conception of freedom would be relevant here? And why might cinema be the privileged medium to make manifest such freedom?” – Stéphane Symons on a shot in the Dardennes’ Le gamin au vélo sabzian.be/text/an-endi...
An Ending Deferred, Stéphane Symons, 2026
A boy of about twelve years old on a bicycle. He rides as fast as he can. In sheer desperation, he has just violently robbed two people. The whole world is on his heels and is about to catch up with h...
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June 10, 2026 at 10:30 AM
“Why does this shot, for me, point to an unmistakable freedom? What conception of freedom would be relevant here? And why might cinema be the privileged medium to make manifest such freedom?” – Stéphane Symons on a shot in the Dardennes’ Le gamin au vélo sabzian.be/text/an-endi...
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June 9, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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June 5, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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“For the first time in my life I found myself behind a movie camera... . And the actors too were in front of a movie camera for the first time. What was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.” – Pasolini
The Vigil, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1960
What is it, in essence, that Fellini doesn’t like? The poverty, the sloppiness, the coarseness, the awkward, almost anonymous pedantry with which I’ve shot the scene. Fine, I agree. It was my first ex...
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June 9, 2026 at 5:34 AM
“For the first time in my life I found myself behind a movie camera... . And the actors too were in front of a movie camera for the first time. What was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.” – Pasolini
“Perhaps we need images, so that something that is hardly imaginable can register: photographic images as the impressions of the actual at a distance.” – Harun Farocki
Reality Would Have to Begin, Harun Farocki, 1988
A year later, when the Germans had lost the war and the concentration camps were liberated, the Allies photographed and filmed the camps, the survivors, and the traces that pointed to the millions mur...
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June 9, 2026 at 5:34 AM
“Perhaps we need images, so that something that is hardly imaginable can register: photographic images as the impressions of the actual at a distance.” – Harun Farocki
“At the foot of the stairs, a woman pulls a mirror out of her stuffed bunny purse and decides to apply a bit more make-up. It’s all quite banal. Why is it, then, that the viewer feels a tug at his heartstrings?” – Jacques Rancière on Some Came Running
Some Came Running, Jacques Rancière, 2015
At the foot of the stairs, a woman pulls a mirror out of her stuffed bunny purse and decides to apply a bit more make-up. It’s all quite banal. Why is it, then, that the viewer feels a tug at his hear...
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June 9, 2026 at 5:33 AM
“At the foot of the stairs, a woman pulls a mirror out of her stuffed bunny purse and decides to apply a bit more make-up. It’s all quite banal. Why is it, then, that the viewer feels a tug at his heartstrings?” – Jacques Rancière on Some Came Running