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A newly restored version of Wong Kar Wai’s masterpiece will be streamed on MUBI on December 12.

“Breathless,” the iconic movie that helped jumpstart the New Wave film movement in the late 50s and early 60s, has been given a glorious 4K restoration that…

Warming by the Devil’s Fire (an episode in the mini-series, The Blues, 2003), among other films. Professor Naremore authored a book about Burnett’s work, Charles Burnett: A Cinema of Symbolic Knowledge (University of California Press, 2017). Joan Fontaine and Louis Jourdan in Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) The second part of the conversation concentrated on Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948), a film directed by German-born Max Ophuls while he was in exile in the US in the 1940s. Naremore has written a study of the film, recently published by BFI Film Classics. The film, produced...

Part one of a conversation with film historian, scholar James Naremore: The films of American director Charles Burnett James Naremore has been one of the most insightful commentators on film and film history over the past four decades. He remains one of the relatively few figures in the field interested in (or capable of) “interweaving”—as he notes in our conversation below—a genuine aesthetic sensibility with a political and social interest. Now retired from teaching, Professor Naremore is Chancellors’ Professor Emeritus of Communication and Culture, English and Comparative Litera...