John Wyver writes: I am in Provence, deep in the Luberon, which makes me appreciate all the more the wondrous Cezanne above, Hillside in Provence, about 1890-2, hanging in the National Gallery in London. Everywhere I look there are views suggestive of the great artist’s work. It has rained here rather more than we had hoped, which at least has given me time to read a wide variety of bits and pieces, including the following that have attracted my interest and repaid my time. • Why? Because… with Jean-Pierre Gorin: most of us will not get to the film season that one-time Godard collaborator Gorin has programmed for L’Alliance in New York, but we can all enjoy his idiosyncratic programme notes; as Richard Brody says, ‘he’s one of the greatest critics, or, more, cinema-thinkers’. • Mike Figgis looks back on Leaving Las Vegas: “My credit rating had gone down a lot. I was known as a troublemaker”: a very engaging interview with the filmmaker by Lou Thomas for BFI, tied to a new restoration…
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