Tag Archives: Judd Hirsch

the breaking of an ordinary family (film: Ordinary People – Robert Redford, 1980)

Americans don’t really use the expression ‘cinema de papa’, invented by critics and French filmmakers followers of the New Wave to define everything that characterizes the film-making ways of previous generations, from which they wanted to move away. It would … Continue reading

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the fascination of the camera (film: The Fabelmans – Steven Spielberg, 2022)

Hollywood likes to make movies about Hollywood. Several of the great directors (including Spielberg’s friends and collaborators Truffaut and George Lucas) have made autobiographical films inspired by their own childhood and adolescence. In ‘The Fabelmans‘ (2022), Steven Spielberg combines the … Continue reading

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