Jonathan McCalmont

Back in 1975, the leaders of the world’s six richest industrialised nations decided to get together for an informal chat about global economic policy.  This summit proved so successful that it soon

Henri-Georges Clouzot began his career in Nazi Germany where he helped to adapt French films for the German market. When World War II broke out, Clouzot returned to France and landed a

One of the chief pleasures of revisiting older experimental films lies in seeing which cinematic techniques gained mainstream acceptance and which techniques died on the vine. Still widely regarded as one of the

Like much of 1960s culture, the cinema of the French New Wave can be understood as a reaction against the collective insanity of the Second World War. Trapped between disgust at anything resembling