Month: December 2018
Berlin, 1984
A divided city before it reunited When I visited West Berlin in 1984 to cover the Filmfestspiele, or Berlin Film Festival, the city was thoroughly divided. Much of my day there was spent exploring the two sides of the city. In the 1920s, the 1960s then again in the 1980s, Berlin was at the centre…
San Francisco – City of art
SAN FRANCISCO — Despite its problems, tops among them a stratospheric level of housing prices and vast homelessness, this city remains a magnet for creative design of all sorts. A compendium of art we saw at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF-MOMA) helps launch our new Cities Cities section at the davidwinch.website.The sensational…
Bertolucci, cinema’s past — or its future?
Bertolucci and the European film adventure Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci’s recent death brought to mind all his artistic achievements, some of which have fallen into disrepute in a different cultural climate. His later Hollywood-funded work was more popular (and Oscar-winning) but did not get the critical applause of the early films. And his treatment of…