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Streaming discovers the value of the archive
Shrinking catalogues, works removed for accounting reasons and an audience buying discs again: the industry is relearning,…
JULY 16, 2026 · 1 MIN
Editorial
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still · shelf with tapes, discs and film books
In defence of physical media
Streaming is access; a disc is ownership. A manifesto for the right to keep the films we love — on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray or vinyl.
JULY 10, 2026 · 1 MIN
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World Cinema · Review
Parasite: the staircase as destiny
Bong Joon-ho’s satire climbs and descends between two families, and nobody comes out unscathed — least of all the audience.
JULY 8, 2026 · 1 MIN
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4K UHD and the second life of the classics
Scanning the original negative at high resolution is not videophile luxury: it is the chance to see films of 50 or 80 years ago as…
JULY 2, 2026 · 1 MIN
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World Television · Review
Breaking Bad: the chemistry of tragedy
Five seasons, a single equation: what happens when an ordinary man decides he deserves more. The answer is still the most rigorous…
JUNE 29, 2026 · 1 MIN
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Twin Peaks and the television that learned to dream
In 1990 a single question — who killed Laura Palmer? — took auteur cinema into prime time and opened the door every prestige…
JUNE 24, 2026 · 1 MIN
still · dora and josué at the bus station
Central Station, 28 years later
The film that gave the Retomada its face is still the most generous portrait of a country in transit — and proof that Brazilian…
JUNE 17, 2026 · 1 MIN
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Analysis · Review
Vertigo: love as free fall
Hitchcock’s most personal film is a magic trick in reverse: it reveals the secret halfway through and still leaves us with no…
JUNE 10, 2026 · 1 MIN
portrait · bernard herrmann conducting in the studio
Bernard Herrmann, architect of vertigo
From Citizen Kane to Taxi Driver, by way of the fifth dimension: how an irascible composer taught film music to think.
JUNE 5, 2026 · 1 MIN
behind the scenes · the centrifuge of the discovery
An odyssey made by hand
With no computer graphics, 2001 built outer space with a rotating centrifuge, front projection and a watchmaker’s patience. Behind…
MAY 27, 2026 · 1 MIN
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Brazilian Cinema · Review
City of God: an armed childhood
Two decades on, the film by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund is still both a punch and a signature: a new form born of the…
MAY 21, 2026 · 1 MIN
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Hitchcock/Truffaut, the book that taught the world to watch
A week of conversation between two filmmakers became the most influential film manual ever published — and it is still the best…
MAY 18, 2026 · 1 MIN
portrait · rod serling in front of the cameras
Rod Serling against the sponsors
American television in the 1950s let advertisers rewrite live drama. The revenge of one censored writer was called The Twilight…
MAY 8, 2026 · 1 MIN
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Metropolis and the 25 minutes that came back from Buenos Aires
For more than 80 years Fritz Lang’s film circulated mutilated. Until a print forgotten in an Argentine museum returned to the…
APRIL 22, 2026 · 1 MIN
title art · the spiral of the fifth dimension
World Television · Review
The Twilight Zone: a conscience in black and white
Rod Serling’s anthology remains the supreme example of how half an hour of television can hold a perfect short story — and a…
APRIL 16, 2026 · 1 MIN
still · joão grilo and chicó in the backlands
The backlands in four chapters
In January 1999, A Dog’s Will proved that Brazilian television could film popular literature with the grammar of cinema — and…
APRIL 10, 2026 · 1 MIN
still · vhs tapes and discs arranged on a shelf
A conservation guide: tape, disc and paper
Humidity, heat, light and haste are the four enemies of any home collection. A practical routine to make yours outlast the…
MARCH 28, 2026 · 1 MIN
still · the odessa steps
The steps that taught cinema to edit
A century on, the Odessa sequence in Battleship Potemkin is still the fundamental lesson in editing — quoted, copied and parodied…
MARCH 12, 2026 · 1 MIN