Hanging on the Vitaphone

Out of the Past (Tourneur, 1947)

Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic. Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists "smuggled" the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'"

Midvinterblot (Gösta Werner, 1946)

Sicilia! (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1999)

2019

In this scene from Yasujiro Ozu’s 1949 film Late Spring, professor Shukichi Somiya, portrayed by actor Chishu Ryu, is captured in a dimly lit profile, holding an English edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra.

Anthony Hopkins.

8½ (1963)

"The Last Picture Show" (1971)

M (1931)

Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976)

Danny Boyle

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2012), dir. Sophie Huber

Directed by Ousmane Sembène Cinematography by Christian Lacoste

Persona,1966

Touch of Evil (1958), dir. Orson Welles

Janet Leigh