Olivier Assayas

Cinema Scope Issue 92 | Table of Contents

Interviews with Kelly Reichardt, Cyril Schäublin, Olivier Assayas. Features, Columns and more.
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What Is Cinema? Olivier Assayas on “Irma Vep”

With both versions of Irma Vep,Assayas looks tothe ruptures between the production processes and moviemaking cultures of then and now to create comedy and tragedy about what it means to want to continue the fight, the folly, that is making movies, continuously posing that vital and unanswerable question—“What is cinema?”—in order to recalibrate our perception of what it could be and what it’s not amid such endless reinvention and recontextualization. 
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Après mai (Olivier Assayas, France)

As one is virtually a companion piece to the other, it is only natural to begin discussion of Après mai (Something in the Air) with Olivier Assayas’ 2002 memoir A Post-May Adolescence, just published in an elegant English translation by the Austrian Filmmuseum to accompany their new, Kent Jones-edited anthology on Assayas. Eloquent and thoughtful,…
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TIFF Preview -2: Après mai | Like Someone in Love | At Any Price | Berberian Sound Studio | Boy Eating the Bird’s Food | The Girl from the South | In the Fog | Jump | Lore | Me and You | Outrage Beyond | Reality | Student

Cinema Scope 52 Preview Après mai (Olivier Assayas, France)—Masters By Andrew Tracy As one is virtually a companion piece to the other, it is only natural to begin discussion of Après mai (Something in the Air) with Olivier Assayas’ 2002 memoir A Post-May Adolescence, just published in an elegant English translation by the Austrian Filmmuseum…
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