‘Let me tell you, a director on the dole and two actresses who are also on the dole making a film together, that’s a revolutionary act.’
The Cinema
of Diagonale
Production company, family, philosophy of the budget, catering business, actor’s collective, clique of les marginaux (be they narrow or broad).
EDITORIAL
I
BEGINNINGS
II
TOUT DIAGONALE
III
COMPANY
IV
'A DISCOURSE RARELY
HEARD': INTERVIEWS
V
CRITICISM
VI
ENCORE, DEMAIN
VII
OFF-TOPIC
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The Diagonale Argument
Issue Editorial
I
BEGINNINGS
On ‘Femmes femmes’
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Diagonale #0.5
Sam Warren Miell
A start in life
Pierre Eugène
II
TOUT
DIAGONALE
La Machine
Paul Vecchiali, 1977Levi Butler
Le Théâtre des matières
Jean-Claude Biette, 1977Thomas Delahaye
Maladie
Paul Vecchiali, 1978Luc Moullet
Les Belles Manières
Jean-Claude Guiguet, 1978Avalyn Wu
Corps à cœur
Paul Vecchiali, 1979Matt Hare
Simone Barbès ou la vertu
Marie-Claude Treilhou, 1980Aoife Ní Chiaráin
Cauchemar
Nöel Simsolo, 1980Maria João Madeira
C’est la vie !
Paul Vecchiali, 1981William Hardee & Devin Leong
La Visiteuse
Jean-Claude Guiguet, 1981Benjamin Crais
Loin de Manhattan
Jean-Claude Biette, 1982Joseph Grimault
En rachâchant
Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 1982Jack Cox
L’Archipel des amours
Jean-Claude Biette, Cécile Clairval, Jacques Davil, Michel Delahaye, Jacques Frenais, Gérard Frot-Coutaz, Jean-Claude Guiguet, Marie-Claude Treilhou & Paul Vecchiali, 1983Serge Daney
En haut des marches
Paul Vecchiali, 1983Mia Epnr & Alex Page
Trous de mémoire
Paul Vecchiali, 1985Bingham Bryant
Rosa la rose, fille publique
Paul Vecchiali, 1986Alice Vit.
Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée
Gérard Frot-Coutaz, 1986Gaël Teicher
Once More
Paul Vecchiali, 1988Nora Fulton
Le Café des Jules
Paul Vecchiali, 1989Tâm Minh Pham
Cézanne – Dialogue avec Joachin Gasquet
Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet, 1990Joshua Peinado
La Fille du magicien
Claudine Bories, 1990Pascale Bodet
Wonderboy – De sueur et de sang
Paul Vecchiali, 1994Jack Seibert
III
COMPANY
Guiguet in the throes of spring
Liam Kenny
The office of silence
Mathieu Riboulet
Three deaths and a beginning
Hicham Awad
Beyond the pleasure principle
Jonathan Mackris
IV
A DISCOURSE RARELY HEARD:
INTERVIEWS
If the silences were right
Marie-Claude Treilhou
20 Questions for filmmakers
Jean-Claude Guiguet
Equal interest, equal disrespect
Jean-Claude Biette
‘Don’t live in fear’
Paul Vecchiali
Meeting points
Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Pascal Cervo & Françoise Lebrun
On ‘La Fille du magicien’
Claudine Bories
V
CRITICISM
On ‘C‘est la vie !’
Louis Skorecki & Paul Vecchiali
The machinery is running at full blast
Marie Claude Treilhou
Curse of the freeze frame
Jean-Claude Biette
Diagonale on Grémillon
Jean-Claude Guiguet & Paul Vecchiali
VI
ENCORE, DEMAIN
RE: BLL
Pascale Bodet & Paul Vecchiali
VII
OFF—TOPIC
Alain Guiraudie: Strange flocks
Vinay Arun