While an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, in 1971, Carrie Rickey took a course taught by Manny Farber called “A Hard Look at the Movies.” On the syllabus was Agnès Varda‘s ...

Most directors go to their locations or sets like people heading to an office; that’s where they make their films. A rare few make the world their work. For them, shooting a film is just another part ...

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.

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Agnès Varda was born in Brussels, Belgium and was raised in France. She attended the École du Louvre, studying art history and gained a strong interest in experimental and radical photography.

When Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds first began to submit her work to literary magazines in the ’70s, she received a response stating, “This is a literary magazine. If you wish to write about ...

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 ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is teaming up with the George Eastman Museum to present a retrospective film series, Agnès Varda: (Self)-Portraits. Facts and Fiction, starting Jan. 27 at the Eastman ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...