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Following this week’s release-date announcement, a new teaser for David Lynch‘s revival of Twin Peaks has arrived. Featuring the first look at Kyle MacLachlan returning as FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, it’s another enigmatic preview as he emerges from the dark. As long as Showtime don’t reveal much in the way of plot, as promised, we’ll be satisfied with one of these brief teasers for each main character — and nothing else until the premiere.

“Well, in the beginning, many years ago, Mark [Frost] and I were as if lost in the wilderness, as it always is in the beginning,” Lynch said regarding the revival. “Then we seemed to find a mountain and began to climb, and when we rounded the mountain, we entered a deep forest, and going through the forest for a time the trees began to thin, and then coming out of the forest...

“As many viewers of Maya Deren‘s Meshes of the Afternoon and David Lynch‘s Mulholland Drive have recognized, there are many similarities between these two filmmakers,” writes Joel Bocko over at Fandor Keyframe. “An ordinary key is charged with dangerous supernatural power; characters multiply, bending space and time; an Angeleno atmosphere in which daydream becomes nightmare — these are just a few of Meshes‘ and Lynch’s common touchstones.” This video finds the visual connections between Lynch’s work from Twin Peaks onwards and Deren’s best-known short.

The legendary filmmaker has passed away at the age of 87. Here is the Notebook's coverage of Jacques Rivette, over the years:David Phelps on Céline and Julie Go BoatingDaniel Kasman on Don't Touch the Axe, Around a Small Mountain, DuelleGlenn Kenny on Joan the Maid, La religieuseMiriam Bale on Le pont du NordIgnatiy Vishnevetsky on Paris Belongs to UsTed Fendt on Paris s'en vaCristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin on Out 1 Jonathan Rosenbaum & Kevin B. Lee on Out 1Chris Luscri on Out 1Covadonga G. Lahera & Joel Bocko on Out 1Christopher Small on The Duchess of Langeais, Joan the Maid, Paris Belongs to Us, L'amour fou, Duelle, The Story of Mary and Julien, Céline and Julie Go BoatingAdrian Curry on the posters of Jacques RivetteCarlo Chatrian on (Three Reasons For) Remembering Jacques Rivette...

Read More: Mondo Releases Limited Edition 'Back to the Future' Vinyl Collection In case you haven't already heard, today is "Back to the Future" Day, the same exact day Marty McFly visited the future version of his hometown Hill Valley in "Back to the Future Part II." To celebrate accordingly, watch a fun new video essay entitled "Welcome to Hill Valley" that simultaneously depicts Marty's hometown across all four of its time periods, courtesy of Fandor Keyframe and Joel Bocko. Proving that the more things change, the more they stay the same, the video brings us back and back and back again to the visually repetitive fight scenes and chase scenes that play out in the amazingly consistent town of Hill Valley across 1885, 1955, 1985 and 2015. The video is already filled to the brim with deja vu moments, but everything is even more eerily familiar when watched on top of each other.

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor conclude their two-part discussion of Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave.

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Of all the cinematic New Waves that broke over the world in the 1960s, the one in Czechoslovakia was among the most fruitful, fascinating, and radical. With a wicked sense of humor and a healthy streak of surrealism, a group of fearless directors—including eventual Oscar winners Miloš Forman and Ján Kadár—began to use film to speak out about the hypocrisy and absurdity of the Communist state. A defining work was the 1966 omnibus film Pearls of the Deep, which introduced five of the movement’s essential voices: Věra Chytilová, Jaromil Jireš, Jiří Menzel,...

In one of my favorite recent video essays, “Rohmer’s Guessing Games,” Kevin B. Lee explores the Pov shots and blocking in A Summer’s Tale as a means of muddling character motivations. The above inquiry, from Joel Bocko, into eye contact throughout Satyajit Ray’s The Big City as a mode of character development, makes for a rather nice companion piece, and also a nice reminder of how storytelling is consistent in the finer details.

In one of my favorite recent video essays, “Rohmer’s Guessing Games,” Kevin B. Lee explores the Pov shots and blocking in A Summer’s Tale as a means of muddling character motivations. The above inquiry, from Joel Bocko, into eye contact throughout Satyajit Ray’s The Big City as a mode of character development, makes for a rather nice companion piece, and also a nice reminder of how storytelling is consistent in the finer details.

It’s all in the eyes, and this case they belong to Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), a housewife-turned-saleswoman in Satyajit Ray‘s classic film The Big City. Her personal growth is charted through her gazes, whether they are exchanged with husband, customers, boss—or even her own reflection. Throughout The Big City, Ray uses eye contact to establishes familiarity, intimacy and shifting power dynamics; the story of the film is told through the way the characters look at one another.>> - Joel Bocko...

It’s all in the eyes, and this case they belong to Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), a housewife-turned-saleswoman in Satyajit Ray‘s classic film The Big City. Her personal growth is charted through her gazes, whether they are exchanged with husband, customers, boss—or even her own reflection. Throughout The Big City, Ray uses eye contact to establishes familiarity, intimacy and shifting power dynamics; the story of the film is told through the way the characters look at one another.>> - Joel Bocko...

We're excited to announce that Keyframe is expanding its video offerings, with more videos from a variety of highly talented video essayists. Many of these new contributors were featured in last year's roundup of the best video essays of 2014. Fandor and Keyframe are committed to supporting the video essay as an emerging mode of criticism, as well as an art form in itself and look forward to celebrating more of them on this site. To launch this new endeavor, our inaugural contribution comes from Joel Bocko, an emerging video essayist who last year produced an epic, four-part exploration of David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Here he presents a poetic examination of one of the all-time great works of stop motion animation, Street of Crocodiles by Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay. >> - Kevin B. Lee and Joel Bocko...

We're excited to announce that Keyframe is expanding its video offerings, with more videos from a variety of highly talented video essayists. Many of these new contributors were featured in last year's roundup of the best video essays of 2014. Fandor and Keyframe are committed to supporting the video essay as an emerging mode of criticism, as well as an art form in itself and look forward to celebrating more of them on this site. To launch this new endeavor, our inaugural contribution comes from Joel Bocko, an emerging video essayist who last year produced an epic, four-part exploration of David Lynch's Twin Peaks. Here he presents a poetic examination of one of the all-time great works of stop motion animation, Street of Crocodiles by Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay. >> - Kevin B. Lee and Joel Bocko...