There’s a scene in “Faces Places,” Agnès Varda and JR’s 2017 documentary of their trip around rural France, where they meet a woman in an abandoned public housing project. Local authorities want her ...
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls “cine-writing,” ...
Agnès Varda, subject of the new French-made documentary “Viva Varda!” is now seen as one of the most respected and iconic filmmakers in French history, having received wide acclaim before she passed ...
After nearly two years of planning, the digital platform “The Gleaners and I: Revisiting Agnès Varda’s Edit” is about to go live. Supported by Martin Scorsese, the pedagogical platform will open the ...
The prestigious award of the 67th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, which will take place from 6 to 16 August, will be accompanied by a series of films that retrace Agnès Varda's career. The ...
The cinema, social theorist and sometime filmmaker Edgar Morin argued, is the model for our “mental commerce” with the world. Even awake and in the street, Morin wrote, we walk in solitary daydreams, ...
The usual way to begin writing about Agnès Varda is to take note of her status as the only woman director associated with the French Nouvelle Vague. I’ve done it again just now for what I hope is the ...
A mixture of live interviews, film clips, archival footage, and interjectory direct to camera discourse, Varda by Agnès weaves through Agnes Varda’s more than 65-year career of inventive filmmaking.