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Ulrike Ottinger recalls her time spent on the Left Bank and with friend and bookseller Fritz Picard with wit and warmth in this essayistic documentary.

The 100 Best International Movies of All Time By Molly Pennington, Stacker On 5/13/21 at 6:30 PM EDT International cinema has always had a profound influence on American movies. At the same time, many of the great films in languages other than English retool the styles and genres of popular American movies. Have you ever forgotten you were reading subtitles as you were swept up in the action on screen? Westerns, film noirs, and even romances tap into universal visual languages of movement, a...

These Are the 100 Best Films of All Time, According to Critics By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News AND Ellen Wulfhorst, Stacker News On 5/9/21 at 9:00 AM EDT For more than a century, there have been movies, and people paid to review them. The first film critic, W.G. Faulkner, began churning out weekly reviews in January 1912. Since then, movie criticism has retained countless core consistencies while evolving to keep pace with the medium itself. During this time, the two respec...

‘Paris Calligrammes’ Review: Recalling the 1960s With Fondness and Passion The German artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger takes us on an unhurried journey through her past. Fritz Picard, who ran the Paris bookstore Calligrammes, which served German expatriates, in the documentary “Paris Calligrammes.”Credit...Icarus Films Together Together When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The German artist and f...

© Getty Images Sign up for Sight & Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email Sign up There has been nothing quite like the lockdown of 2020-21 in the history of cinema, but it echoes what happened to art cinemas during World War II. In Britain, all cinemas were ordered closed at the outbreak in September 1939 – then were allowed to reopen within the month. Most of them continued even ...