Have no doubt, Varda was a phenomenal filmmaker; she just happened to be a thoroughly endearing human being to boot. The fact that her co-director on Faces, Places, the artist JR, was decades younger ...

Carrie Rickey cried when her professor, artist Manny Farber, played Agnès Varda's film Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) for the class. It was 1971, and she had not known that women made movies. “I wanted to ...

Film critic Carrie Rickey tells IndieWire about the iconic French New Wave director, the subject of Rickey's inspiring and compelling new biography "A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès ...

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 ...

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, ...

With classic filmmakers, a biography is a peek behind the scenes, whether a debunking or an astonishment—a view of the human element that made grand achievements possible. With modern filmmakers, ...

In her films, Agnès Varda constantly transfigured the world, and few directors so consistently sought out new methods and milieus with which to perform these transmutations. Looking back at Varda a ...

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 ...