A scene from Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet’s Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (image courtesy Grasshopper Film) One of the striking features of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s The ...

Composed of seemingly unrelated vignettes that span countries, languages and centuries, Spanish avant-garde helmer Pere Portabella’s “The Silence Before Bach” defies categorization: A stalking player ...

Last year, filmmaker Ingmar Bergman attended a seminar examining his filmic oeuvre. During a discussion led by Lutheran bishop Lennart Koskinen concerning the relationship between God and the ...

There are essentially two ways of employing music within films. There is the music that underscores scenes without being heard by the protagonists of the film and that derives from an unseen source ...